English

Alternative forms

• chimist (obsolete), chymist (obsolete)

Noun

chemist ‎(plural chemists)

1. A person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.
   • 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     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.

2. (chiefly Britain, New Zealand) A pharmacist.
3. (chiefly Britain, New Zealand) A pharmacy.
4. (obsolete) An alchemist.

Synonyms

• (pharmacist): apothecary, druggist, pharmacist
• (pharmacy): chemist's (British), chemist's shop (British), drugstore (US), pharmacy (especially US)

Related terms

• chemistry
• alchemist

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• mitches