pharmacist
/ˈfɑɹməsɪst/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.34 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A health professional who controls, formulates, preserves, and dispenses medications and provides medical advice and counseling on how medicines should be used in order to achieve maximum benefit, and minimal side effects in order to avoid drug interactions.
Example Sentences
- "He has served as a prescriptionist to the leading pharmacists of the old country, and been employed in many of our American cities."
- "By Admir, pharmacist by profession and hobby dronist by passion."
Etymology
Etymology tree English pharmacy Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English pharmacist From pharmacy (“the art of preparing drugs, a drug, especially laxatives”) + -ist.