CHEMIST'S

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chemist's mean? 

• CHEMIST'S (noun)
  The noun CHEMIST'S has 1 sense:

1. a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold

  Familiarity information: CHEMIST'S used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEMIST'S (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

apothecary's shop; chemist's; chemist's shop; drugstore; pharmacy

Hypernyms ("chemist's" is a kind of...):

shop; store (a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services)

Meronyms (parts of "chemist's"):

pharmacopoeia (a collection or stock of drugs)

 Context examples 

Whether he could go into the next street, and open a chemist's shop?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)