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Webster 1913 Edition


Pandemic

Pan-dem′ic

,
Adj.
[L.
pandemus
, Gr. [GREEK], [GREEK];
πᾶς
,
πᾶν
, all + [GREEK] the people: cf. F.
pandémique
.]
Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic.
Noun.
A pandemic disease.
Harvey.

Webster 1828 Edition


Pandemic

PANDEM'IC

,
Adj.
[Gr. all, and people.] Incident to a whole people; epidemic; as a pandemic disease.

Definition 2024


pandemic

pandemic

English

Adjective

pandemic (comparative more pandemic, superlative most pandemic)

  1. Widespread; general.
  2. (medicine) Epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population.
    World War I might have continued indefinitely if not for a pandemic outbreak of influenza.

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Noun

pandemic (plural pandemics)

  1. A pandemic disease; a disease that hits a wide geographical area and affects a large proportion of the population.
    • 2013 January 1, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 64:
      In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.”

Synonyms

  • See also Wikisaurus:pandemic

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