pharmacy

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A shop where medicines are prepared and sold.

   I picked up my prescription at the pharmacy on the way home.

2. 2
   noun

   The study and science of preparing medicines.

   She is studying pharmacy at university.

From Middle English pharmacy, borrowed from Middle French pharmacie (“the art of creating drugs; a drug, especially a laxative”), from Old French farmacie, from Medieval Latin pharmacia, from Ancient Greek φαρμακεία (pharmakeía, “the use of drugs”), from φάρμακον (phármakon, “a drug, charm, enchantment”), of uncertain but likely Pre-Greek origin. Attested since late 14th century.

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