GENERAL PRACTITIONER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses

Synonyms:

general practitioner; GP

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("general practitioner" is a kind of...):

doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician (a licensed medical practitioner)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "general practitioner"):

country doctor (a doctor who practices in the country (rather than in a city) usually remote from a modern hospital)

family doctor (a general practitioner who treats all the family members)