Pandemic

Quick meaning: Pandemic is an adjective meaning (usually derogatory) General, widespread.

Meaning

(usually derogatory) General, widespread.

More Meanings

1. (epidemiology) A pandemic disease; a disease that affects a wide geographical area and a large proportion of the population.
2. (epidemiology) 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.
3. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology, rare) 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.”).

Example Sentences

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.

Diſeaſes are likewise endemic and pandemic. [...] The pandemic affect the People in general at one and the ſame Time, without Regard to Sex, Age, Condition, or Temperament; ſuch as peſtilential Diſeaſes.

The full and correct theory of influenza will not be reached by the great pandemics only. On the other hand some very localized epidemics may prove to be signal instances for the pathology, although they do not bear upon the source of the great historic waves of influenza.

Allow Class[ical] Ō and Ǔ to merge into a single phoneme, namely /o/, [...] and the specimens under investigation will emerge as /nodo/, /nokʼe/, and /noro/, the last-mentioned driven by an early pandemic tendency to change into /nora/ as, inherently, the designation of a female.

Word Forms

• pandemics

Synonyms for pandemic

Depending on context, synonyms include pandemial, common, ubiquitous, universal, disseminated, far-flung.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include epidemic, general, epidemiological, plague, endemic, epidemiology.

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