NOSTRUM


Meaning of NOSTRUM in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ nɒstrəm ]

( nostrums)

1.

You can refer to ideas or theories about how something should be done as nostrums , especially when you think they are old-fashioned or wrong in some way. ( FORMAL )

...yesterday’s failed socialist nostrums.

N-COUNT : usu pl , oft N of n

2.

If you refer to a medicine as a nostrum , you mean that it is not effective or has not been tested in a proper scientific way.

...pills, tablets, and other nostrums claiming to be magic potions.

N-COUNT

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