Pandemic Definition

păn-dĕmĭk
pandemics
adjective
Widespread; general.
American Heritage Medicine
Prevalent over a whole area, country, etc.; universal; general; specif., epidemic over a large region.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
noun
A pandemic disease or outbreak.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Pandemic

Noun

Singular:
pandemic
Plural:
pandemics

Origin of Pandemic

  • From Late Latin pandÄ“mus (“affecting all the people, public, general"), from Ancient Greek πᾶν (pan, “all") (equivalent to English pan-) + δῆμος (dÄ“mos, “the people").

    From Wiktionary

  • From Late Latin pandēmus from Greek pandēmos of all the people pan- pan- dēmos people dā- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Pandemic Sentence Examples

  • Will wearing a mask protect me from pandemic flu?

  • From all these it finally disappeared about 1680, at the close of a period of pandemic prevalence.

  • A flu pandemic occurred three times in the last century.

  • In short, if we regard the history of this disease as a whole, it appears to have lost such power from the time of the Great Plague of London in 1665, which was part of a pandemic wave, until the present day.

  • And even in the East plague was confined to more or less clearly localized epidemics; it showed no power of pandemic diffusion.

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Words Starting With

PPAPAN

Words Ending With

CICMIC

Unscrambles

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Words Starting With P and Ending With C

Starts With P & Ends With CStarts With PA & Ends With CStarts With P & Ends With IC

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With P8 Letter Words Ending With C