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pandemonium
English
Alternative forms
- pandaemonium
- pandæmonium
Etymology
Coined by John Milton in "Paradise Lost", Pandæmonium, from Ancient Greek ??? (pân, “all”) (equivalent to English pan-) + Late Latin daemonium (“evil spirit, demon”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (daím?n, “deity”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?pænd??m??n??m/
- (US) IPA(key): /?pænd??mo?ni.?m/
- Rhymes: -??ni?m
Noun
pandemonium (countable and uncountable, plural pandemoniums or pandemonia)
- (archaic) A place where all demons live; Hell.
- 1674 — John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I
- And Trumpets sound throughout the Host proclaim
A solemn Councel forthwith to be held
At Pandæmonium, the high Capitol
Of Satan and his Peers.
- And Trumpets sound throughout the Host proclaim
- 1674 — John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I
- Chaos; tumultuous or lawless violence.
- 2004, Boston Globe, October 22
- Whenever you have violent pandemonium, there's the overwhelming possibility for panic and tragedy.
- 2004, Boston Globe, October 22
- An outburst; loud, riotous uproar, especially of a crowd.
Synonyms
- (tumultuous or lawless violence): chaos, bedlam
- (an outburst): outburst, uproar
Related terms
- pandemoniac
Translations
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
pandemonium n (plural pandemoniums, diminutive pandemoniumpje n)
- pandemonium, residence of all demons/devils, hell
- pandemonium, a 'hellish' chaos, notably terrible noise and disorder
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
pandemonium n (definite singular pandemoniet, indefinite plural pandemonium, definite plural pandemonia)
- (antiquity) temple for all gods and demigods
- pandemonium (residence for all demons)
- Synonym: helvete
References
- “pandemonium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
From English pandemonium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pan.d??m?.?um/
Noun
pandemonium n (indeclinable)
- (literary) pandemonium (hell)
- Synonym: piek?o
- (literary) pandemonium (chaos; tumultuous or lawless violence)
- Synonym: koszmar
Further reading
- pandemonium in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- pandemonium in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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stir
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /st??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /st?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian (“to be in motion, move, agitate, stir, disturb, trouble”), from Proto-Germanic *sturiz (“turmoil, noise, confusion”), related to Proto-Germanic *staurijan? (“to destroy, disturb”). Cognate with Old Norse styrr (“turmoil, noise, confusion”), German stören (“to disturb”), Dutch storen (“to disturb”).
Verb
stir (third-person singular simple present stirs, present participle stirring, simple past and past participle stirred)
- (transitive) To incite to action
- Synonyms: arouse, instigate, prompt, excite; see also Thesaurus:incite
- (transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, a liquid of suchlike, by passing something through it
- Synonym: agitate
- (transitive) To agitate the content of (a container), by passing something through it.
- (transitive) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
- (transitive, dated) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
- (intransitive) To move; to change one’s position.
- (intransitive) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
- (intransitive) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
- (intransitive, poetic) To rise, or be up and about, in the morning.
- Synonyms: arise, get up, rouse; see also Thesaurus:wake
- “Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins,” remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: “Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir!”
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:stir.
Usage notes
- In all transitive senses except the dated one (“to change the place of in any manner”), stir is often followed by up with an intensive effect; as, to stir up fire; to stir up sedition.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
stir (countable and uncountable, plural stirs)
- The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.)
- agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
- 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem).
- Why all these words, this clamour, and this stir?
- .
- Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:stir.
- 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem).
- Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
- 1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
- Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:stir.
- 1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
- Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
Derived terms
- cause a stir
- stirless
- upstir
Translations
Etymology 2
From Romani stariben (“prison”), nominalisation of (a)star (“seize”), causative of ast (“remain”), probably from Sanskrit ???????? (?ti??hati, “stand or remain by”), from ??????? (ti??hati, “stand”).
Noun
stir (countable and uncountable, plural stirs)
- (slang) Jail; prison.
- 1928, Jack Callahan, Man's Grim Justice: My Life Outside the Law (page 42)
- Sing Sing was a tough joint in those days, one of the five worst stirs in the United States.
- The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
- 1928, Jack Callahan, Man's Grim Justice: My Life Outside the Law (page 42)
Derived terms
- stir-crazy
Anagrams
- ISTR, RTIs, Rist, TRIS, TRIs, Tris, rits, sirt, tris, tris-
Danish
Verb
stir
- imperative of stirre
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