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pandemic definition

pan·demic (pan dem′ik)

adjective

prevalent over a whole area, country, etc.; universal; general; specif., epidemic over a large region: said of a disease

Etymology: < LL pandemus < Gr pandēmos < pan, all (see pan-) + dēmos, the people: see democracy

noun

a pandemic disease

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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