What is "pangloss"

Pangloss (from Greek, meaning all languages) may refer to:

• Pangloss, a fictional character in the 1759 novel Candide by Voltaire
• Dr. Peter Pangloss, a fictional character in the 1797 play The Heir at Law by George Colman the Younger
• the Pangloss Collection, a digital library of audio recordings in endangered languages.