Usually means: Cure-all for every disease.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. panacea: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. panacea: Merriam-Webster
  3. panacea: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. panacea: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. panacea: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Panacea, panacea: Vocabulary.com
  7. Panacea, panacea: Wordnik
  8. panacea: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Panacea, panacea: Wiktionary
  10. panacea: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. panacea: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. panacea: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. panacea: Dictionary.com
  14. panacea: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. panacea: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Panacea (Greek mythology), Panacea (disambiguation), Panacea (group), Panacea (medicine), Panacea, The Panacea: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Panacea: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. panacea: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. panacea: Rhymezone
  20. Panacea: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. panacea: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. panacea: FreeDictionary.org
  23. panacea: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. panacea: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Panacea: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Panacea (Greek mythology), Panacea (medicine), panacea: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Panacea (Greek mythology), Panacea (medicine), Panacea: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. panacea: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Panacea: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. panacea: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  7. Panacea (Greek mythology), Panacea (medicine), panacea: Medical dictionary
  8. Panacea: Drug Medical Dictionary
  9. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. panacea: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See panacean as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.
noun:  A solution to all problems.
noun:  (obsolete) The plant allheal (Valeriana officinalis), believed to cure all ills.
noun:  (Greek mythology) 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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