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• Dolittle, Dr
  1. a character in books for children by Hugh Lofting and in a film based on these books. Dr Dolittle is a man who can understand what animals are saying and can talk to them using their language.
• Dr Who
  1. a British series of television programmes, about a scientist called Dr Who, who travels with different people through time and space in his TIME MACHINE the TARDIS . He fights evil people and frightening creatures from other worlds, usually in a way that is not violent. His most famous enemies are the Daleks .
• Dr. (noun)
  1. a licensed medical practitioner
  2. or the equivalent a person who holds Ph.D. degree from an academic institution
• Dr. Pepper
  1. a type of sweet, non-alcoholic drink with bubbles
• Lecter, Dr Hannibal
  1. the main character in the book and film Silence of the Lambs, written by the US novelist Thomas Harris. Dr Lecter is a very intelligent, evil, and dangerous serial killer who eats people.
• Livingstone, Dr David
  1. (1813-73) a Scottish MISSIONARY (= someone who goes to a foreign country to teach people about Christianity) and EXPLORER of Africa. He was the first European to see the ZAMBEZI River and the VICTORIA FALLS . A JOURNALIST called Henry Morton STANLEY, who did not know Livingstone, went to look for him. When they met he said, "Dr Livingstone, I presume". People sometimes say this as a joke when they meet someone.
• Seuss, Dr
  1. (1904-91) a US children's writer whose funny stories, poems, and pictures are very popular with young children, and include The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• Spock, Dr Benjamin
  1. (1903-1998) a US doctor who wrote books giving advice on how parents should take care of their children, including The Common Sense Book of Baby and Childcare (1946), which suggested that parents should allow their children more freedom than was fashionable at the time, and which had a great influence on parents in the US and UK
• Watson, Dr
  1. one of the main characters in Sir Arthur CONAN DOYLE 's stories about Sherlock HOLMES . Watson is HOLMES's friend and helps him in his work, but he is much less intelligent than HOLMES.
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