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Plural of alchemist

regular plural

The plural of alchemist is alchemists.

Forms of alchemist

Singularalchemist /ˈæl.kə.mɪst/
Pluralalchemists /ˈæl.kə.mɪsts/
Countablecountable

Alchemists in a sentence

  • Years later, scientists learned that the sun’s light—visible and invisible—is merely the by-product of a process alchemists had vainly tried to reproduce for centuries—the transmutation of one element into another.2017, Bob Berman, Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 73
  • The alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.From the entry transform
  • The alchemists tried to transmute base metals to gold.From the entry transmute
  • For Chinese alchemists, gold held the key to the Elixir, the Eastern equivalent of the Philosopher's Stone.2002, Philip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, published 2004, page 59. From the entry elixir
  • At any rate, from the point of view of proper science, it marks an important step back, a step towards increased speculativism, the method of the alchemists.2011, Jan Mulder, Foundations of Axiomatic Linguistics, page 9. From the entry speculativism

Meaning of alchemist

  1. noun One who practices alchemy.
  2. noun One who blends material or substances in the nature or supposed nature of alchemy.

Full definition of alchemist

Questions about the plural of alchemist

What is the plural of alchemist?
The plural of alchemist is alchemists.
Is alchemist countable?
Alchemist is a countable noun.

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