Definition of "apothecary" in İngilizce

noun

1. (archaic in US, dated in UK) Synonym of pharmacist: a person who sells medicine, especially (historical) one who made and sold their own medicines in the medieval or early modern eras.

2. (archaic or historical) Synonym of pharmacy: an apothecary's shop, a drugstore.

   • The Russian people as a whole almost revered the apothecary, and they entered it as they would enter a sanctum.
   • Seeds found in a 1630s refuse-filled clay borrow pit, located near an apothecary, illustrate colonists intense interest in experimenting with the medicinal qualities of New World plants.

3. (uncommon) A glass jar of the sort once used for storing medicine.