pharmacist
pronunciation
How to pronounce pharmacist in British English:
UK [ˈfɑ:məsɪst]
How to pronounce pharmacist in American English:
US [ˈfɑrməsɪst]
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- Noun:
- a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs
Word Origin
- pharmacist (n.)
- 1811; see pharmacy + -ist. Replaced obsolete pharmacian (1720). The Latin word was pharmacopola, the Greek pharmakopoles.
Example
- 1. Next to the game heads is the pharmacist 's counter .
- 2. She went to college and graduate school and became a pharmacist .
- 3. The pharmacist is don colcord , who lives in the town of nucla .
- 4. Decades later it is still the most versatile and effective medicine on the pharmacist 's shelf .
- 5. Swan had apprenticed with a pharmacist and become a partner with a firm of manufacturing chemists .