noun
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a shop selling medicines, cosmetics, etc
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a qualified dispenser of prescribed medicines
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a person studying, trained in, or engaged in chemistry
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an obsolete word for alchemist
Other Word Forms
- nonchemist noun
Etymology
Origin of chemist
First recorded in 1555–65; from Greek chēm(ía) (also chēmeía, chymeía ) “art of alloying metals; alchemy” + -ist; replacing chymist, from Medieval Latin alchimista; alchemist ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Lawrence, an organometallic chemist, says "chemists are here to solve problems and to try to make your world better."
From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026
Around that time, Tchinnis joined the company’s Melville, N.Y., manufacturing facility as a chemist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
Previous banknotes have pictured other national figures including novelist Charles Dickens, physicist and chemist Michael Faraday, composer Edward Elgar, nurse Florence Nightingale and architect Christopher Wren.
From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026
In the early 1920s, inventor and electrical engineer Lee de Forest collaborated with chemist Theodore Case to create the first sound-on-film system, PhonoFilm.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
For some non-Jews, such as Erwin Schrödinger and nuclear chemist Max Delbrück, the situation was morally untenable.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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