apothecary UK /əˈpɒθəkəɹi/US /əˈpɑθəˌkɛəɹi/noun 3forms 1phrases 1 noun3 •A glass jar of the sort once used for storing medicine. •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.[T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it [the iris] Irios in the genetiue case. — 1562 •(no longer used, 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. — 1919 formsapothecaries Phrases with apothecary talk like an apothecaryTo prattle.