chemist
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2.8
- noun
- /ˈkɛmɪst/
- UK
:
farmacéutico
- I'm just going to the chemist to get some stuff for my mum.
I went to the chemist and I bought Ketaphil cleansing lotion.
- I went to the chemist and I bought Ketaphil cleansing lotion.
- Mel, that's a hell of an afternoon which they could pick up at the chemists whilst collecting their own bum pimple cream.
- Make quite strong green tea, pour it into an ice tray and then just buy some some gauze from the chemist, cut it into squares.
- They're the same species that people bottle up and sell to you in a more expensive way in your chemist shop.
- And I'm good on you for having chemists that know better than to just hand me a bottle of triple antibiotic ointment.
Examples
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If you have a problem, ask a chemist.
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I got this from Boots the Chemist, and I just started using it.
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After all, you could get whatever you wanted from a chemist back in the day.
Blog text (33) -
As a matter of fact, I'm on my way in now to the chemist to get some medicine.
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I need you to pick up my prescription from the chemist.
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Sister used to work for a chemist, so he's probably your best bet.
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The inhalers in the chemist shops are often substandard.
Academic text (2010) -
So now's the time to get them from your chemist or get them online while they're still freely available.
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As they approached the main road, she noticed a chemist's shop and a photocopy shop, each a one-room storefront.
Fiction book (2002) -
If you have a health question, ask a chemist at the pharmacy.
Synonyms
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3.0
A person who makes and gives out medicines and tells people how to use them
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9.9
A person who prepares and sells medicines, especially in the past
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8.9
A shop that sells medicines and fills prescriptions
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4.4
A person who makes and sells medicines in a pharmacy
A person who prepares and gives medicines, usually a pharmacist
A person like a doctor or pharmacist who gives medicines to patients
A person in old times who made and sold medicines
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
chemist = chemistry (semi-transparent) = chem + ist
Formally 'chemistry' + '-ist' (person associated with chemistry), but the sense 'pharmacist' is a semantic extension not directly inferable from 'chemistry' for many learners.
Etymology
Chemist comes from the older word alchemy, from Arabic al-kīmiyā', which meant the 'art of changing' materials because early alchemists mixed and made medicines. So in places like Britain a chemist is a person who prepares and sells medical drugs and is the same as a pharmacist.