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pandemic
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /pæn?d?m?k/
- Rhymes: -?m?k
- Hyphenation: pan?dem?ic
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek ???????? (pánd?mos, “of or belonging to all the people, public”) + English -ic (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’). ???????? is derived from ???- (pan-, prefix meaning ‘all, every’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh?- (“to protect, shepherd”)) + ????? (dêmos, “the common people; free citizens, sovereign people”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deh?- (“to divide, share”)). Compare Late Latin pand?mus (“affecting all the people, general, public”).
Adjective
pandemic (comparative more pandemic, superlative most pandemic)
- (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.
- Synonyms: (obsolete) pandemial, (obsolete) pandemical, panepidemic
- Antonym: nonpandemic
- (usually derogatory) General, widespread.
- Synonyms: common, ubiquitous, universal; see also Thesaurus:widespread
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
pandemic (plural pandemics)
- (epidemiology) A pandemic disease; a disease that affects a wide geographical area and a large proportion of the population.
- Synonyms: (rare) pandemia; see also Thesaurus:pandemic
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- Black Death
- bubonic plague
- COVID-19 (coronavirus, Chinese virus, Wuhan virus)
- plague
- Spanish flu
Etymology 2
See Pandemic.
Adjective
pandemic (not comparable)
- (Greek mythology, Roman mythology, rare) Alternative letter-case form of Pandemic - 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.
References
Further reading
- pandemic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- pandemic (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Romanian
Etymology
From French pandémique
Adjective
pandemic m or n (feminine singular pandemic?, masculine plural pandemici, feminine and neuter plural pandemice)
- pandemic
Declension
pandemic From the web:
- what pandemic was in 1920
- what pandemic happened in 1918
- what pandemic happened in 2009
- what epidemic
- what pandemics have happened
- what pandemic means
- what pandemic was in 2009
- what pandemics have there been
worldwide
English
Etymology
From world +? -wide.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?w??ldwa?d/, /?w??ld?wa?d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?w?ld?wa?d/, /?w?ld?wa?d/
- Hyphenation: world?wide
Adjective
worldwide (comparative more worldwide, superlative most worldwide)
- Spanning the world; global.
Alternative forms
- world-wide
Derived terms
- World Wide Web
Translations
Adverb
worldwide (not comparable)
- Throughout the world.
- Synonyms: around the world, globally, internationally
Translations
worldwide From the web:
- what worldwide events happened in 2011
- what worldwide holiday is today
- what worldwide remembrance is today
- what worldwide celebration is recognized today
- what worldwide day is it today
- what worldwide events happened in 2012
- what world events happened in 2011
- what major world events happened in 2011
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