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apothekes

apothekes is the plural of apotheke.

Meaning of apotheke

Noun (1)

apotheke (plural apothekes)

  1. A Greek storeroom or warehouse.
    • The absence of earrings from the pre-Persian apothekes and the fact that only one was found on the South Hill indicate that earrings were infrequently used in archaic times at Olynthus.1941, David Moore Robinson, Excavations at Olynthus: Metal and Minor Miscellaneous Finds, an Original Contribution to Greek Life (with a New Up-to-Date Map of Olynthus), Johns Hopkins University...

Noun (2)

apotheke (plural apothekes)

  1. A European, especially German, pharmacy.
    • The other ſtructures are: the foundling-houſe, the grammar-ſchool, the poſt-office, the ſalt-magazine, the archives, the aſſignation-bank, the artillery-court, the printing-office of the ſenate, the chief apotheke, the mint, &c. […] The botanic or apothecary-garden, belonging to the imperial...1800, W[illiam] Tooke, “Sketch of Mosco”, in History of Russia, from the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rurik, to the Accession of Catharine the Second. […], volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan...

Questions about apothekes

What is apothekes the plural of?
Apothekes is the plural of apotheke.

Words near apothekes in the dictionary

  1. apothegmatizes
  2. apothegmatizing
  3. apothegmic
  4. apothegms
  5. apotheke
  6. apothekes
  7. apothem
  8. apothems
  9. apotheose
  10. apotheosed
  11. apotheoses

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