chemist

plural chemists · alternative obsolete chimist · alternative obsolete chymist

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

   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.

   1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 60

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   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.

   2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2020

2. AustraliaNew ZealandNigeriaUKGhanaSynonym of pharmacist.

   Synonyms: pharmacist

3. AustraliaNew ZealandSouth AfricaUKSynonym of pharmacy, especially as a standalone shop or general store.

   Synonyms: pharmacy

4. obsoleteAn alchemist.