chemist

Definitions

1. A person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.
2. A person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level
3. Synonym of pharmacist
4. Synonym of pharmacist.
   Australia, British, New-Zealand
5. Synonym of pharmacy, especially as a standalone shop or general store
6. Synonym of pharmacy, especially as a standalone shop or general store.
   Australia, British, New-Zealand, South-Africa
7. An alchemist
8. An alchemist.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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