OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 5738

apothecary

/əˈpɒθəkəɹi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
apotecario • apoticario • boticario
Synonym of pharmacist: a person who sells medicine, especially (historical) one who made and sold their own medicines in the medieval or early modern eras.
It amused me to see the bustle and the life in the apothecary's shop across the street.
The girls, though their illness was long and dangerous, recovered under Mrs. Palmer's care, who watched over them as if they had been her own; and from that time an affection, as v…
apoteca • botica
Synonym of pharmacy: an apothecary's shop, a drugstore.
He was befriended by a local druggist, Jay Miller, who worked at the apothecary at the corner of Sixth and Harrison Street.
The Russian people as a whole almost revered the apothecary, and they entered it as they would enter a sanctum.