- (also dispensing chemist)(both British English)(North American English druggist)
a person whose job is to prepare and sell medicines, and who works in a shop 药剂师；药商 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- local
- dispensing
- chemist’s shop
- the chemist’s
- chemist’s(plural chemists)(British English)
a shop that sells medicines and usually also soap, make-up, etc. 药房，药店（通常也出售肥皂、化妆品等） You can obtain the product from all good chemists. 你可从各大药房买到这种产品。 Take this prescription to the chemist's. 带着这张药方到药房去。 I'll get it at the chemist's. 我要去药房买。 a chemist’s/chemist shop 药房
More Like This Shops, etc. with apostrophesShops, etc. with apostrophesTopics Shoppinga2, Medicinea2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- local
- dispensing
- chemist’s shop
- the chemist’s
a scientist who studies chemistry 化学家 a research chemist 从事研究工作的化学家
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Word Originlate Middle English (denoting an alchemist): from French chimiste, from modern Latin chimista, from alchimista ‘alchemist’, from alchimia, from Arabic al-kīmiyā', from al ‘the’ + kīmiyā' (from Greek khēmia, khēmeia ‘art of transmuting metals’).