pharmacy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines,
    pharmaceutics.
  2. noun a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold
    chemist's shop; apothecary's shop; drugstore; chemist's.

WordNet

Phar"ma*cy noun
Etymology
OE. fermacie, OF. farmacie, pharmacie, F. pharmacie, Gr. , fr. to administer or use medicines, fr. medicine.
Definitions
  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.
  2. A place where medicines are compounded; a drug store; an apothecary's shop.

Webster 1913