HOW TO PRONOUNCE
apothecary
/əˈpɑθəˌkɛəɹi/
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uh-POTH-uh-kair-ee: stress POTH.
Use the th of “thin,” followed by a light uh. The final part sounds like “carry”; the strongest beat stays near the beginning.
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“An old sign marked the entrance to the apothecary.”
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noun
- A glass jar of the sort once used for storing medicine.
More meanings (2)
noun
- (archaic, dated) 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.
- (archaic, historical) Synonym of pharmacy: an apothecary's shop, a drugstore.
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IPA pronunciation
/əˈpɑθəˌkɛəɹi/
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Where the apothecary who, under the pretence of winding up his affairs, surrenders his drugs at their true value?
You don't want an apothecary, but a surgeon--but I shall give you over at once, if you are either froward or relapse.
More book examples (3)
They put it into a bed and rubbed it, and Daniel went to the town for an apothecary, but life was quite gone.
If so, the Apothecary was a man in advance of his time, and knew what Mantua would be, in eighteen hundred and forty-four.
He was said to be the son of an apothecary and at the time of his birth weighed nine pounds.