catholicon

Questions about catholicon

What does catholicon mean?

catholicon means "hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists".

How many syllables are in catholicon?

catholicon has 4 syllables and divides as ca-tho-li-con under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for catholicon?

Close synonyms include panacea, nostrum, cure-all. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is catholicon a common word?

catholicon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.