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View synonyms for pandemic

pandemic

[ pan-dem-ik ]

adjective

  1. (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area. Compare epidemic ( def 1 ).
  2. pandemic fear of atomic war.



noun

  1. a disease prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world.

pandemic

/ pænˈdɛmɪk /

adjective

  1. (of a disease) affecting persons over a wide geographical area; extensively epidemic


noun

  1. a pandemic disease

pandemic

/ păn-dĕmĭk /

  1. An epidemic that spreads over a very wide area, such as an entire country or continent.


pandemic

  1. A widespread epidemic affecting a large part of the population.


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Other Words From

  • pan·de·mi·a [pan-, dee, -mee-, uh], noun
  • pan·de·mic·i·ty [pan-d, uh, -, mis, -i-tee], noun
  • in·ter·pan·dem·ic adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of pandemic1

First recorded in 1660–70; from Late Latin pandēm(us), from Greek pándēmos “common, public” ( pan- “all” + dêm(os) “the people” + -os adjective suffix) + -ic; pan-

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Word History and Origins

Origin of pandemic1

C17: from Late Latin pandēmus, from Greek pandēmos general, from pan- + demos the people

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Example Sentences

Take Me Fishing has current info on state regulations, which are constantly evolving under pandemic guidelines.

They ranked the pandemic ninth in importance out of 15 potential threats.

Golf was one of the first sports to return both professionally and recreationally during the coronavirus pandemic.

From Digiday

The IBM Research Center represents the company’s earliest site to reopen amid the pandemic’s shutdowns.

From Fortune

It’s a Wednesday evening in March, and the coronavirus pandemic is ravaging Italy.

The Ebola pandemic in West Africa is having a disastrous effect on tourism on the whole continent.

If there is a pandemic to be actually worried about, it's the pandemic of fear as we approach the midterm elections.

Gerald Ford and the swine flu pandemic that never happened in 1976 is a cautionary tale that government action can backfire.

You were commended after the avian flu pandemic for your ability to forge such close friendships with international leaders.

In contrast, the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic infected 60 million Americans in just about the same five-month period of time.

Pandemic, pan-dem′ik, adj. incident to a whole people, epidemic.

Another great pandemic, beginning in 1364, spread over the whole of the then known world and appeared in its most virulent form.

The disease is nearly always epidemic, though at intervals it appears to be pandemic and in certain districts almost endemic.

Now the first species of pestilence is called pandemic; this causes those who live in dry places to be attacked by frequent heats.

Uranian Aphrodite was distinguished from her Pandemic sister by chastened lust-repelling loveliness.

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