'Pharmacy' definitions:
Definition of 'pharmacy'
(from WordNet)
noun
The art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines, [syn: pharmacy, pharmaceutics]
noun
A retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold [syn: drugstore, apothecary's shop, chemist's, chemist's shop, pharmacy]
Definition of 'Pharmacy'
From: GCIDE
- Pharmacy \Phar"ma*cy\, n. [OE. fermacie, OF. farmacie, pharmacie, F. pharmacie, Gr. farmakei`a, fr. farmakey`ein to administer or use medicines, fr. fa`rmakon medicine.]
- 1. The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A place where medicines are compounded; a drug store; an apothecary's shop. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pharmacy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- antique store,
- apothecary,
- automobile showroom,
- blood bank,
- bookstore,
- bootery,
- candy store,
- charity ward,
- chemist,
- cigar store,
- clinic,
- clothiers,
- clothing store,
- confectionery,
- consultation room,
- delivery room,
- dispensary,
- dispensatory,
- dress shop,
- drugstore,
- dry goods store,
- emergency,
- examining room,
- fever ward,
- florists,
- fur salon,
- furniture store,
- gift shop,
- haberdashery,
- hardware store,
- hat shop,
- hobby shop,
- hospital room,
- intensive care,
- ironmongery,
- isolation,
- jewelers,
- jewelry store,
- labor room,
- laboratory,
- leather goods store,
- liquor store,
- luggage shop,
- materia medica,
- maternity ward,
- milliners,
- novelty shop,
- nursery,
- operating room,
- package store,
- pharmaceutics,
- pharmacology,
- pharmacopoeia,
- posology,
- prison ward,
- private room,
- recovery room,
- saddlery,
- schlock house,
- schlock shop,
- secondhand shop,
- secondhand store,
- semi-private room,
- shoe store,
- smoke shop,
- specialty shop,
- sporting goods store,
- stationers,
- stationery store,
- surgery,
- sweater shop,
- sweet shop,
- therapy,
- thrift shop,
- tobacco store,
- tobacconists,
- toy shop,
- treatment room,
- trimming store,
- used-car lot,
- ward,
- X ray