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say it: AL-kuh-mee
alchemy is a noun meaning "the way two individuals relate to each other". It is pronounced /ˈælkəmi/ — AL-kuh-mee. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the way two individuals relate to each other
“their chemistry was wrong from the beginning -- they hated each other”
“a mysterious alchemy brought them together”
a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for alchemy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.