panacea
see also: Panacea
Pronunciation Noun
Panacea
Pronunciation Proper noun
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see also: Panacea
Pronunciation Noun
panacea (plural panaceas)
- A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.
- Something that will solve all problems.
- A monorail will be a panacea for our traffic woes.
- (obsolete) The plant allheal (Valeriana officinalis), believed to cure all ills.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
- There, whether it diuine Tobacco were, / Or Panachæa, or Polygony, / She found, and brought it to her patient deare […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
- (remedy to cure all disease) catholicon, cure-all, elixir, wonder drug
- (solution to all problems) miracle, magic bullet, silver bullet
- (plant) allheal, woundwort
- French: panacée
- German: Allheilmittel
- Italian: panacea, toccasana, triaca
- Portuguese: panaceia
- Russian: панаце́я
- Spanish: panacea
- French: panacée
- German: Allheilmittel, Patentrezept
- Italian: panacea
- Portuguese: panaceia
- Russian: панаце́я
- Spanish: panacea
Panacea
Pronunciation Proper noun
- (Greek god) The goddess/personification of healing, remedies, cures and panaceas (medicines, salves, ointments and other curatives). She is a daughter of Asclepius and Epione.
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