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- [pan-dem-ik]
- /pænˈdɛm ɪk/
- /pænˈdem.ɪk/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [pan-dem-ik]
- /pænˈdɛm ɪk/
Definitions of pandemic word
- adjective pandemic (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area. 1
- adjective pandemic general; universal: pandemic fear of atomic war. 1
- noun pandemic a pandemic disease. 1
- noun pandemic widespread disease 1
- adjective pandemic disease: widespread 1
- countable noun pandemic A pandemic is an occurrence of a disease that affects many people over a very wide area. 0
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Origin of pandemic
First appearance:
before 1660 One of the 46% oldest English words
1660-70; < Late Latin pandēm(us) < Greek pándēmos common, public (pan- pan- + dêm(os) the people + -os adj. suffix) + -ic
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Parts of speech for Pandemic
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pronoun
preposition
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pandemic popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 78% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
pandemic usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for pandemic
adj pandemic
- across the board — If a policy or a situation applies across the board, it affects everything or everyone in a particular group.
- all out — not at one's home or place of employment; absent: I stopped by to visit you last night, but you were out.
- all over the place — If something is happening all over the place, it is happening in many different places.
- catching — If an illness or a disease is catching, it is easily passed on or given to someone else.
- communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
noun pandemic
- hydra — A minute freshwater coelenterate with a stalklike tubular body and a ring of tentacles around the mouth.
- infestation — the act of infesting; state of being infested.
- influenza — Pathology. an acute, commonly epidemic disease, occurring in several forms, caused by numerous rapidly mutating viral strains and characterized by respiratory symptoms and general prostration. Compare flu.
adjective pandemic
- epidemic — A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.
- epizootic — Of, relating to, or denoting a disease that is temporarily prevalent and widespread in an animal population.
- outspread — spread out; stretched out: outspread arms.
- worldwide — extending or spread throughout the world.
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