pharmacist
/ˈfɑɹməsɪst/
pharmacist 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.
Noun
pharmacist (plural pharmacists)
- 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.
- He has served as a prescriptionist to the leading pharmacists of the old country, and been employed in many of our American cities.2013, Robin Sterling, People and Things from the Cullman, Alabama Tribune 1877 - 1898, →ISBN
- By Admir, pharmacist by profession and hobby dronist by passion.2017 February 25, Simon Cocking, “Dronalism and The New Media”, in Irish Tech News
- One who studies pharmacy.
pharmacist meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu
pharmacist in Hindi
- professional who dispenses prescription drugs
- औषधकार auṣadhkār
pharmacist in Tamil
- மருந்தாளுநர், மருந்துக் கலவையாளர், மருந்து கலப்போர், மருந்து கலவை செய்வோர், மருந்தாளர், மருந்தறிஞர்
pharmacist in Urdu
- professional who dispenses prescription drugs
- دَوا ساز davā-sāz
pharmacist in Telugu
- pharmacist, druggist
- మందులవాడు mandulavāḍu
More languagesFewer languages
- pharmacist in Kannada
- ಔಷಧಿಕಾರ, ಔಷಧ ವ್ಯಾಪಾರಿ
- pharmacist in Arabic
- صَيْدَلِيّ ṣaydaliyy, صَيْدَلَانِيّ ṣaydalāniyy
- pharmacist in Indonesian
- apoteker, farmasis
- pharmacist in Persian
- داروساز dârusâz, داروگر dârugar
- pharmacist in Thai
- เภสัชกร pee-sàt-chá-gɔɔn
- pharmacist in Vietnamese
- dược sĩ, dược sư, dược sĩ bào chế
Examples of pharmacist in a sentence
- For controlled substances' prescriptions pharmacists do a double-count as a matter of course.
- The pharmacist filled my prescription for penicillin.
- Pilling is a skill rarely used by modern pharmacists.
Synonyms of pharmacist
Forms of pharmacist
| plural | pharmacists |
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Origin of pharmacist
From pharmacy (“the art of preparing drugs, a drug, especially laxatives”) + -ist.
Words formed from pharmacist
Questions about pharmacist
- What does pharmacist mean?
- Pharmacist means 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.
- What is pharmacist in Hindi?
- Pharmacist in Hindi is औषधकार (auṣadhkār). See Pharmacist meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is pharmacist?
- Pharmacist is a noun.
- How do you pronounce pharmacist?
- Pharmacist is pronounced /ˈfɑɹməsɪst/.
- What is the plural of pharmacist?
- The plural of pharmacist is pharmacists.
Words near pharmacist in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: pharmacist (page history and authors); pharmacist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); మందులవాడు (Telugu) (page history and authors); pharmacist (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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