Chemist

Quick meaning: Chemist is a noun meaning A person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.

Meaning

A person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.

More Meanings

1. (chiefly British, Australia, New Zealand, Ghana, Nigeria) Synonym of pharmacist.
2. (chiefly British, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) Synonym of pharmacy, especially as a standalone shop or general store.
3. (obsolete) An alchemist.

Example Sentences

It was Oxford now—the matriculation photograph, posed in the stony front quad at Corpus, the pelican on top of the sundial appearing to sit on the head of the lanky, begowned chemist at the centre of the back row.

As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.

Word Forms

• chemists

Synonyms for chemist

Depending on context, synonyms include pharmacist, pharmacy, apothecary, druggist.

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Related dictionary entries include druggist, pharmacist, apothecary, chemistry, chemical, pharmacy.

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