drugstore
USDRUG-stor/ˈdɹʌɡ.stoɹ/DRUG-staw/ˈdɹʌɡ.stɔː(ɹ)/
Pluraldrugstores
- 1A pharmacy, especially a small standalone general store that also fills prescriptions alongside selling household goods.
She picked up her prescription at the drugstore on her way home from work.
In many towns, drugstores once featured a soda fountain where teenagers gathered after school.
Similarpharmacy
Note
A word of the US and Canada, built plainly from drug + store and written solid as one word. Pharmacy can mean just the prescription counter, but drugstore names the whole shop around it: aisles of cosmetics and household goods as well as the pharmacist's window. Elsewhere in English the same kind of shop is usually called a pharmacy, or in British use a chemist's.
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Origin
A compound formed from "drug" and "store".