Panacea

Definitions

1. A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.
2. The goddess/personification of healing, remedies, cures and panaceas (medicines, salves, ointments and other curatives). She is a daughter of Asclepius and Epione.
   Greek
3. A solution to all problems.
4. The plant allheal (Valeriana officinalis), believed to cure all ills.
   obsolete

Equivalents

27 more languages

العربيةالدواء الحاسمترياق

Bosanskipanacejaпанацеја

Catalàpanacea

Češtinapanaceavšelék

Cymraegateb

Ελληνικάαντίδοτοπανάκεια

فارسینوشدارو

Suomiihmelääkepatenttilääkepatenttiratkaisuyleislääke+ 1 more

Gàidhliguil-ìoc

हिन्दीरामबाण

Hrvatskipanacejaпанацеја

Հայերենհամադարման

Bahasa Indonesiapanasea

Italianopanaceatoccasanatriaca

日本語万能薬

ქართულიპანაცეა

한국어만병통치약

Latinapanacea

Македонскипанацеја

Nederlandspanaceewondermiddel

Polskipanaceum

Portuguêspanacéia

Românăpanaceu

Русскийпанацея

Српскиpanacejaпанацеја

Svenskamirakelkur

Українськапанацея

Examples

“A monorail will be a panacea for our traffic woes.”

“When busy he was better, and appeared to think⟳ perpetual motion a panacea for his unnamed and un-nameable complaint; and so much were they hurried from place⟳ to place⟳, after their arrival at Genoa, that both sisters were thankful when they embarked again, as the sea appeared a resting-place...”

“Podson was seated on the bed, going through such turf forecasts as he could find⟳ in the papers; his panacea for correcting the mistakes of fortune.”

“Hydrogen is not a panacea for reaching the zero net emissions target⟳ by 2050, but it can grow⟳ to become⟳ "a big niche" fuel in particular sectors and applications, claims a new report⟳.”

“But dollarization is not a panacea for Argentina’s crisis-stricken economy, analysts say⟳.”

“There, whether it diuine Tobacco were, / Or Panachæa, or Polygony, / She found, and brought it to her patient deare […]”

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