DRUGGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does druggist mean? 

• DRUGGIST (noun)
  The noun DRUGGIST has 1 sense:

1. a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs

  Familiarity information: DRUGGIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRUGGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

apothecary; chemist; druggist; pharmacist; pill pusher; pill roller

Hypernyms ("druggist" is a kind of...):

caregiver; health care provider; health professional; PCP; primary care provider (a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "druggist"):

pharmaceutical chemist; pharmacologist (someone trained in the science of drugs (their composition and uses and effects))

Derivation:

drug (a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic)

 Context examples 

Murder was not tolerated, servants were not slaves, and neither poison nor sleeping potions to be procured, like rhubarb, from every druggist.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

"There's some kind of a mixture, put up by the druggists, that helps men to stop the use of tobacco," she called back from the door, "and I am going to send you some."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I am of this opinion, because, while I was reading the newspaper, I observed him behind a low wooden partition, which was his private apartment, very busy pouring out of a number of those vessels into one, like a chemist and druggist making up a prescription.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)