Word of the Day: PANACEA

Full Definition of PANACEA

:  a remedy for all ills or difficulties :  cure-all

— pan·a·ce·an adjective

Examples of PANACEA

1. The law will improve the lives of local farmers, but it is no panacea.
2. <a woman who seems to believe that chicken soup is a panacea for nearly everything>

Origin of PANACEA

Latin, from Greek panakeia, from panakēs all-healing, from pan- + akos remedy

First Known Use: 1548

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