Definizione monolingua

panacea

panacea (plural panaceas or panaceæ)

1. A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.
2. Something that will solve all problems.

   A monorail will be a panacea for our traffic woes.

3. (obsolete) A particular plant believed to provide a cure-all.
   • 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 [...].

Definizione dizionario panacea

panacea

Altri significati:

Something that will solve all problems.

remedy believed to cure all disease

(obsolete) A particular plant believed to provide a cure-all.

elixir (of life)

something that will solve all problems

A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.