alchemists
alchemists — noun
- alchemistssingular
- alchemistsesplural
1. people who lived in earlier centuries and practiced an early kind of chemistry,
people who lived in earlier centuries and practiced an early kind of chemistry, trying to turn common metals such as lead into gold and discover the secret to eternal life
Medieval alchemists spent years trying to turn lead into gold in their hidden laboratories.
collocation: turn lead into gold
Kabir read a book about the unusual tools and symbols that alchemists used.
Some early alchemists discovered important chemical processes while searching for an elixir of life.
Yara learned that alchemists in China developed their own traditions separate from European alchemy.
用法筆記
Alchemists were active mainly from the Middle Ages until the 17th century. The word is sometimes used figuratively today for anyone who seems to transform things in a mysterious or impressive way.