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s | panacea |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a proper noun panacea is

(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.

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    panacea

    English

    Noun

  • 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) 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 [...].

    Synonyms

    * (remedy to cure all disease) catholicon, cure-all * (plant) allheal, woundwort

    See also

    * nostrum English words prefixed with pan- ----