panacea

Other forms of panacea

plural

panaceas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about panacea

What does panacea mean?

panacea means "(Greek mythology) the goddess of healing; daughter of Aesculapius and sister of Hygeia". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in panacea?

panacea has 4 syllables: pan-a-ce-a. The stress falls on "ce". In IPA it is /ˌpænəˈsiə/.

What is another word for panacea?

Close synonyms include nostrum, catholicon, 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 panacea a common word?

panacea is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with panacea?

3 words rhyme with panacea. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.