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CHEMIST'S SHOP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does chemist's shop mean?
• CHEMIST'S SHOP (noun)
The noun CHEMIST'S SHOP has 1 sense:
1. a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold
Familiarity information: CHEMIST'S SHOP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 shop" is a kind of...):
shop; store (a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services)
Meronyms (parts of "chemist's shop"):
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)
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