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chymist

chymist is the obsolete spelling of chemist.

Meaning of chemist

Noun

chemist (plural chemists)

  1. A person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.
    • It was Oxford now—the matriculation photograph, posed in the stony front quad at Corpus, the pelican on top of the sundial appearing to sit on the head of the lanky, begowned chemist at the centre of the back row.1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 60
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, Nigeria, UK, Ghana) Synonym of pharmacist.
    Synonyms:
    pharmacist
  3. (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, UK) Synonym of pharmacy, especially as a standalone shop or general store.
    Synonyms:
    pharmacy
  4. (obsolete) An alchemist.

Forms of chymist

pluralchymists

Questions about chymist

What is chymist the obsolete spelling of?
Chymist is the obsolete spelling of chemist.

Words near chymist in the dictionary

  1. chymification
  2. chymified
  3. chymifies
  4. chymify
  5. chymifying
  6. chymist
  7. chymistries
  8. chymistry
  9. chymists
  10. chymokine
  11. chymopapain

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chymist (page history and authors); chemist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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