pandemic
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pandemic¹
- /pænˈdɛmɪk/ UK
- /pænˈdɛmɪk/ Canada, US
- [pɛənˈdɛmɪk] Canada, US
- /pænˈdemɪk/ Australia
- /pɛnˈdemɪk/ New Zealand
Rhymes with -ɛmɪk
Where it comes from
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”).
adjective more pandemic · most pandemic
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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.
The chaotic breakdown of public health as World War I dragged on is widely recognized as exacerbating the disease burden of the pandemic outbreak of influenza in 1918.
Similar: pandemial, pandemical, panepidemic · Opposite: nonpandemic
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General, widespread.
A former age insisted upon the efficacy of scarlet curtains and red broad-cloth in small-pox—a succeeding age thinks it has proved the practice superstitious,—or they refer to it fancy. Now that said fancy is an element in the constitution of man, possibly more powerful in its effects upon the cure
Similar: common, ubiquitous, universal, disseminated, far-flung, extensive, pervasive, predominant, prevailing, prevalent, regnant, rife
noun pandemics
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A pandemic disease; a disease that affects a wide geographical area and a large proportion of the population.
Those diseases which have some strong resemblance in their general characters, and attack many individuals in a large extent of country at about the same time, are commonly called epidemics. If all, or about all the inhabitants of a country be similarly attacked, at or near the same time, with a par
Similar: pandemia
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The COVID-19 pandemic.
Similar: pandemia
Similar: pandemic
pandemic²
- /pænˈdɛmɪk/ UK
- /pænˈdɛmɪk/ Canada, US
- [pɛənˈdɛmɪk] Canada, US
- /pænˈdemɪk/ Australia
- /pɛnˈdemɪk/ New Zealand
Rhymes with -ɛmɪk
Where it comes from
See Pandemic.
adjective
- 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.”). The meeting of Venus with Phoebe distinguishes her roles: the business of Venus in her pandemic form is to ensure the immortality of the kinds. Her Garden has the voluptuousness necessary to ensure this, and this is 'the first seminarie / Of all things that are borne to live and die / According to t
Pandemic³
- /pænˈdɛmɪk/ US, UK
Rhymes with -ɛmɪk
Where it comes from
From Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη Πάνδημος (Aphrodítē Pándēmos, “Aphrodite Pandemos”), from πάνδημος (pándēmos, “of or belonging to all the people, public”) + English -ic (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’). See further at pandemic (etymology 1).
adjective 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. [page 64] The Love, therefore, which attends upon Venus Pandemos is, in truth, common to the vulgar, and presides over transient and fortuitous connexions, and is worshipped by the least excellent of mankind. The votaries of this deity seek the body rather than the soul, and the ignorant rather than
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: epidemic, general, epidemiological, plague, aids, endemic, epidemiology, hiv, flu, influenza, disease, universal, cataclysm, outbreak, scourge, spread
noun
Similar: pandemic
Translations
Every language
adj epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population
| Español | pandémico |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 瘟疫 wēnyì, 大流行 dàliúxíng |
| हिन्दी | सर्वव्यापी महामारी sarvavyāpī mahāmārī |
| Français | pandémique |
| Deutsch | pandemisch |
| Italiano | pandemico |
| Ελληνικά | πανδημικός pandimikós |
| Română | pandemic |
| Русский | пандеми́ческий pandɛmíčeskij |
| Tiếng Việt | (thuộc) đại dịch |
noun disease that affects a wide geographical area and a large proportion of the population
| Español | pandemia |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 범유행 beomyuhaeng, 팬데믹 paendemik |
| 日本語 | パンデミック pandemikku, 汎流行 hanryūkō |
| 中文 | 大流行病 dà liúxíngbìng, 瘟疫 wēnyì |
| हिन्दी | महामारी mahāmārī |
| Kiswahili | pandemia |
| Português | pandemia |
| Français | pandémie |
| Deutsch | Pandemie |
| Italiano | pandemia |
| Ελληνικά | πανδημία pandimía |
| Română | pandemie |
| Русский | пандеми́я pandɛmíja |
| Tiếng Việt | đại dịch |
| العربية | جَائِحَة jāʔiḥa |
| עברית | פַּנְדֶּמְיָה pandemyá |
Talk about this word "pandemic." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pandemic. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. pandemic. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pandemic "pandemic." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pandemic.Cite this
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title = {pandemic},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pandemic},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
