pharmacy
Pluralpharmacies
- 1A store where you can buy medicines that a doctor has ordered for you.
Like a special store just for medicines instead of food or clothes.
I picked up my medicine at the pharmacy on Main Street.
The pharmacy closes at nine o'clock on weekdays.
Similardrugstore, chemist, dispensary, apothecary
- 2The study of medicines: how they are made and how they work in the body.
She studied pharmacy at university to learn how drugs are made.
Pharmacy combines chemistry and biology to create safe medicines.
Similarpharmaceutics
- 3The job of preparing and giving out medicines that a doctor has ordered.
She chose pharmacy as a career because she likes helping sick people.
After ten years in pharmacy, he opened his own shop.
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Origin
It came through French and Latin from a Greek word meaning "the use of drugs," from a Greek word for "a drug" whose earlier origin is uncertain.