general practitioner

1. 1.

   a physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses

   SynonymsGP

   Broaderdoctor

   Narrowercountry doctorfamily doctor

Questions about general practitioner

What does general practitioner mean?

general practitioner means "a physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses".

What is another word for general practitioner?

Close synonyms include GP. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is general practitioner a common word?

general practitioner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.