PHARMACIST

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs

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Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("pharmacist" is a kind of...):

caregiver; health care provider; health professional; PCP; primary care provider (a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pharmacist"):

pharmaceutical chemist; pharmacologist (someone trained in the science of drugs (their composition and uses and effects))

Derivation:

pharmaceutic (of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists)

pharmacy (the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines,)