pandemic
Meanings
Plural: pandemics
Noun
- an epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world
- A pandemic disease; a disease that affects a wide geographical area and a large proportion of the population.
- The COVID-19 pandemic.
Adjective Satellite
- epidemic over a wide geographical area
- "a pandemic outbreak of malaria"
- existing everywhere
- "pandemic fear of nuclear war"
Adj
- Of a disease: epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population; also, of or pertaining to a disease of this nature.
- General, widespread.
- Alternative letter-case form of Pandemic (“of Aphrodite Pandemos, the earthly aspect of the Greek goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus, as contrasted with the heavenly aspect known as Aphrodite Urania: earthly, physical, sensual.”).
Origin / Etymology
From Ancient Greek πάνδημος (pándēmos, “of or belonging to all the people, public”) + English -ic (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’). πάνδημος is derived from παν- (pan-, prefix meaning ‘all, every’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect, shepherd”)) + δῆμος (dêmos, “the common people; free citizens, sovereign people”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂- (“to divide, share”)). Compare Late Latin pandēmus (“affecting all the people, general, public”).
Synonyms
common, disseminated, extensive, far-flung, pandemia, pandemial, pandemic, pandemical, panepidemic, pervasive, predominant, prevailing, prevalent, regnant, rife, spread out, systemic, ubiquitous, universal, widespread
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 15
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