: a white crystalline compound C8H9NO that is derived from aniline and acetic acid and is used especially to relieve pain or fever
First Known Use of acetanilide
1855, in the meaning defined above
History and Etymology for acetanilide
borrowed from French acétanilide, from acét-acet- + anilide "an amide in which hydrogen of the amido group is replaced by phenyl," borrowed from French, from aniline aniline + -ide (in amideamide)