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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024al•che•my /ˈælkəmi/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- a form of chemistry of the Middle Ages that tried to discover an elixir of life and a method for changing ordinary metals into gold.
- any seemingly magical process of changing something ordinary into something superior.
al•che•mist, n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024al•che•my (al′kə mē),USA pronunciation n., pl. -mies for 2.- a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
- any magical power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value.
- Greek kēmeía transmutation; replacing Middle English alconomye, equivalent. to alk(imie) + (astr)onomye astronomy
- Arabic al the + kīmiyā'
- Medieval Latin alchymia
- Old French alquemie
- 1325–1375; earlier alchimie
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