druggist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French droguiste, replacing earlier drugger. See drug.
Noun
[edit]druggist (plural druggists)
- A manufacturer and vendor of drugs and medicines.
- For sale by all druggists
- 1777: Sir Lucius Cary (John Bell ed.), An Elegy on Dr. Donne (in Bell's Edition) [1]
- No druggist of the soul bestow'd on all / So catholicly a curing cordial.
Synonyms
[edit]- (medicine maker and seller): apothecary, chemist, pharmacist
Translations
[edit]pharmacist — see pharmacist