druggist

English

Etymology

From French droguiste, replacing earlier drugger. See drug.

Noun

druggist (plural druggists)

1. A manufacturer and vendor of drugs and medicines.

   For sale by all druggists

   • 1777: Sir Lucius Cary (John Bell ed.), An Elegy on Dr. Donne (in Bell's Edition) [1]

     No druggist of the soul bestow'd on all / So catholicly a curing cordial.

Synonyms

• (medicine maker and seller): apothecary, chemist, pharmacist

Translations

pharmacist — see pharmacist

See also

• drugstore