A synonym for the word doctor?

Answer 1

A doctor. "Doctresse" is an archaic term denoting a female doctor, but just like "professoress" and "instructress" are old terms which have been abandoned as there is no need for them, doctress is no longer used. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, 'doctress' cites it as 'rare,' and specifies that a note for its use: "Now only used when sex is emphasized; in which case also woman-doctor, lady-doctor, are more common."

Answer 2

Doctor. There is no word for a specifically female doctor. Furthermore, "feminine" is the wrong word in this context, because there is no gender in the English noun. All English nouns are of the same gender, regardless of whether they denote specifically male or female creatures. This "common gender" is not neuter, either - neuter is a grammatical gender just as absent from Modern English nouns as masculine and feminine are. Gender in the noun is a matter of form, and has no necessary relation to physical gender. In those languages that have grammatical gender, it is plainly unrelated to physical gender. In French the word for sentry is a feminine noun, la sentinelle, and its pronoun is elle, which is translated into English as "he" if the sentry is a man. In Japanese there are eight genders, and no one for a minute imagines that the Japanese think there are eight sexes. In Arabic, most plurals are "feminine." Grammatical gender is a matter of word form, not sex. Whilst it is true that English nouns are generally neuter, there are nouns such as manageress, poetess, etc. which are plainly feminine and always carry the pronoun "she", although the same is not necessarily true of, e.g. lioness, tigress, etc. Just another of the many little traps with which the language is littered.

Answer 3

Doctor is neither feminine nor masculine; the same word is used for both female and male doctors.

Answer 4

physician, medic, general practitioner

Answer 5

Doctors

Answer 6

doctor

Answer 7

Doctress