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Pandemonium
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pan⋅de⋅mo⋅ni⋅um

  [pan-duh-moh-nee-uhm]
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–noun
1. wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
2. a place or scene of riotous uproar or utter chaos.
3. (often initial capital letter) the abode of all the demons.
4. hell.
Origin:
1660–70; after Pandaemonium, Milton's name in Paradise Lost for the capital of hell; see pan-, demon, -ium

Related forms:
pan⋅de⋅mo⋅ni⋅ac, pan⋅de⋅mo⋅ni⋅a⋅cal  [pan-duh-muh-nahy-uh-kuhl] , pan⋅de⋅mon⋅ic  [pan-duh-mon-ik] , adjective
pan⋅de⋅mo⋅ni⋅an, adjective, noun

Synonyms:
1, 2. bedlam, turmoil, babel.
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pan·de·mo·ni·um   (pān'də-mō'nē-əm)   
n.  

  1. A very noisy place: "The whole lobby was a perfect pandemonium, and the din was terrific" (Jerome K. Jerome).

  2. Wild uproar or noise. See Synonyms at noise.


[From Pandæmonium, capital of Hell in Paradise Lost, an epic poem by John Milton : Greek pan-, pan- + Late Latin daemonium, demon (from Greek daimonion, from daimōn, lesser god, demon; see demon).]
pan'de·mo'ni·ac (-nē-āk') adj.
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pandemonium 
1667, Pandæmonium, in "Paradise Lost" the name of the palace built in the middle of Hell, "the high capital of Satan and all his peers," coined by John Milton (1608-74) from Gk. pan- "all" + L.L. dæmonium "evil spirit," from Gk. daimonion "inferior divine power," from daimon "lesser god" (see demon). Transferred sense "place of uproar" is from 1779; that of "wild, lawless confusion" is from 1865.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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