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pharmacist

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈfɑɹməsɪst/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: pharmacy

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

One who studies pharmacy.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: literary

Qualifier: pharmacy

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: druggist, chemist, apothecary, pill pusher, pill roller

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: health professional, primary care provider, PCP, health care provider, caregiver

Narrower terms: pharmacologist, pharmaceutical chemist

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English pharmacy Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō 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.

Across languages

Translations

141 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: apteker — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Albanian: farmacist — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Arabic: صَيْدَلِيّ (ṣaydaliyy) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Arabic: صَيْدَلَانِيّ (ṣaydalāniyy) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Armenian: դեղագործ (deġagorc) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Azerbaijani: əczaçı — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Belarusian: аптэ́кар (aptékar) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Belarusian: аптэ́карка (aptékarka) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Belarusian: фармацэ́ўт (farmacéwt) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Bulgarian: фармаце́вт (farmacévt) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Bulgarian: аптека́р (aptekár) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Catalan: farmacèutic — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Chinese Mandarin: 藥劑師 /药剂师 (yàojìshī) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Chinese Mandarin: 藥師 /药师 (yàoshī) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Czech: lékárník — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Czech: farmaceut — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Danish: apoteker — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Danish: farmaceut — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Danish: farmakonom — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Dutch: apotheker — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Dutch: apothekeres — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Esperanto: apotekisto — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Estonian: apteeker — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Estonian: farmatseut — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Finnish: apteekkari — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Finnish: proviisori — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Finnish: farmaseutti — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • French: pharmacien — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • French: pharmacienne — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • French: apothicaire — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • West-Frisian: apoteker — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Galician: farmacéutico — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Georgian: ფარმაცევტი (parmacevṭi) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Georgian: მეაფთიაქე (meaptiake) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • German: Apotheker — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • German: Apothekerin — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Greek: φαρμακοποιός (farmakopoiós) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Ancient Greek: φαρμακοπώλης (pharmakopṓlēs) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Hebrew: רוֹקֵחַ (rokéakh) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Hindi: औषधकार (auṣadhkār) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Hungarian: patikus — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Hungarian: gyógyszertári eladó — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Icelandic: apótekari — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Icelandic: lyfsali — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Indonesian: apoteker — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Indonesian: farmasis — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Irish: poitigéir — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Irish: cógaiseoir — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Italian: farmacista — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Japanese: 薬剤師 (yakuzaishi) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Japanese: 薬屋 (kusuriya) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Kazakh: дәріханашы (därıxanaşy) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Kazakh: фармацевт (farmasevt) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Khmer: ឱសថការី (ʼaosɑt kaarəy) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Khmer: ឱសថការិនី (ʼaosɑt kaarenəy) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Korean: 약사 (yaksa) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Korean: 약제사 (yakjesa) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Kyrgyz: аптекарь (aptekar) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Latin: pharmacopola — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Latvian: aptiekārs — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Lithuanian: vaistininkas — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Lithuanian: vaistininkė — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Macedonian: аптекар (aptekar) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Macedonian: аптекарка (aptekarka) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Macedonian: фармаце́вт (farmacévt) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Macedonian: фармаце́втка (farmacévtka) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Maltese: spiżjar — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Mongolian: эм зүйч (em züjč) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Mongolian: эм найруулагч (em najruulagč) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Navajo: azeeʼ baa nahaniihí — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Norman: apotitchi — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Norwegian Bokmål: farmasøyt — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Norwegian Bokmål: apoteker — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: apotekar — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: farmasøyt — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Persian: داروساز (dârusâz) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Persian: داروگر (dârugar) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Polish: aptekarz — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Polish: aptekarka — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Portuguese: farmacêutico — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Romanian: farmacist — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Romanian: farmacistă — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Russian: фармаце́вт (farmacévt) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Russian: апте́карь (aptékarʹ) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Russian: апте́карша (aptékarša) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Scots: pottinger — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Serbo-Croatian: апотѐка̄р — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Serbo-Croatian: apotèkār — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Slovak: lekárnik — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Slovak: farmaceut — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Slovene: lekarnar — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Slovene: lekarnarka — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Spanish: farmacéutico — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Spanish: farmacéutica — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Spanish: boticario — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Spanish: farmacopola — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Swahili: mfamasia — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Swedish: apotekare — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Tajik: дорусоз (dorusoz) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Thai: เภสัชกร (pee-sàt-chá-gɔɔn) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Turkish: eczacı — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎖𐎈 (rqḥ) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Ukrainian: апте́кар (aptékar) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Ukrainian: апте́карка (aptékarka) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Urdu: دَوا ساز (davā-sāz) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Uzbek: aptekachi — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Uzbek: aptekar — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Uzbek: farmatsevt — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Vietnamese: dược sĩ — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Vietnamese: dược sư — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Volapük: pötekan — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Volapük: hipötekan — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Volapük: jipötekan — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Volapük: drogan — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Volapük: hidrogan — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Volapük: jidrogan — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Welsh: fferyllydd — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Yiddish: אַפּטייקער (apteyker) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Yiddish: אַפּטייקערין (apteykerin) — professional who dispenses prescription drugs
  • Afrikaans: farmaseut — one who studies pharmacy
  • Bulgarian: фармаце́вт (farmacévt) — one who studies pharmacy
  • Dutch: farmaceut — one who studies pharmacy
  • Finnish: farmasian opiskelija — one who studies pharmacy
  • French: pharmacien — one who studies pharmacy
  • French: pharmacienne — one who studies pharmacy
  • Georgian: ფარმაკოლოგი (parmaḳologi) — one who studies pharmacy
  • Georgian: ფარმაცევტი (parmacevṭi) — one who studies pharmacy
  • German: Pharmazeut — one who studies pharmacy
  • German: Pharmazeutin — one who studies pharmacy
  • Hungarian: gyógyszerész — one who studies pharmacy
  • Italian: farmacista — one who studies pharmacy
  • Kazakh: фармацевт (farmasevt) — one who studies pharmacy
  • Macedonian: фармаце́вт (farmacévt) — one who studies pharmacy
  • Polish: farmaceuta — one who studies pharmacy
  • Polish: farmaceutka — one who studies pharmacy
  • Portuguese: farmacêutico — one who studies pharmacy
  • Romanian: farmacolog — one who studies pharmacy
  • Romanian: farmacologă — one who studies pharmacy
  • Russian: фармаце́вт (farmacévt) — one who studies pharmacy
  • Vietnamese: dược sĩ — one who studies pharmacy
  • Vietnamese: dược sĩ bào chế — one who studies pharmacy
Real reading context

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