ophthalmologist

1. 1.

   a medical doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye

   Synonymseye doctoroculist

   Broaderspecialist

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Other forms of ophthalmologist

plural

ophthalmologists·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ophthalmologist

What does ophthalmologist mean?

ophthalmologist means "a medical doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye".

How many syllables are in ophthalmologist?

ophthalmologist has 5 syllables: oph-thal-mo-lo-gist. The stress falls on "mo". In IPA it is /ˌɑpθəˈmɑlədʒɪst/.

What is another word for ophthalmologist?

Close synonyms include eye doctor, oculist. 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 ophthalmologist a common word?

ophthalmologist is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.