DEFINITIONnouna medicine (such as penicillin or its derivatives) that inhibits the growth of or destroys microorganisms.
adjectiverelating to antibiotics.
ORIGIN mid 19th cent. (in the sense‘doubting the possibility of life in a particular environment’): from anti- + Greek biōtikos‘fit for life’ (from bios ‘life’).
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