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Grammar : Adj, noun |
Spell : ep-i-dem-ik |
Phonetic Transcription : ˌɛp ɪˈdɛm ɪk |
Definition of epidemic
Origin :- c.1600, from French épidémique, from épidemié "an epidemic disease," from Medieval Latin epidemia, from Greek epidemia "prevalence of an epidemic disease" (especially the plague), from epi "among, upon" (see epi-) + demos "people, district" (see demotic).
- adj widespread
- noun widespread disease
- Then, too, when our artist friend was with us we were in the grasp of an epidemic of cholera.
- Extract from : « Lotus Buds » by Amy Carmichael
- The antibody could be synthesized and one could attack any epidemic with confidence.
- Extract from : « Pariah Planet » by Murray Leinster
- Only fallin' in love is kind of epidemic down at the boardin' house, I guess.
- Extract from : « Cy Whittaker's Place » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Not a Moon man, on the other hand, had survived the epidemic.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 » by Various
- Their expenses were enlarged, as were those of the other families, by an epidemic of smallpox.
- Extract from : « The Negro Farmer » by Carl Kelsey
- An epidemic has prevailed at Urbino, and has entered your paternal dwelling.
- Extract from : « Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 (of 8) » by Various
- There was an epidemic of baseness over the land, and but few escaped the contagion.
- Extract from : « Sir Jasper Carew » by Charles James Lever
- The streets were full of it; in Harvard it became an epidemic.
- Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
- Lingen caught the epidemic, and ceased to think or talk about himself.
- Extract from : « Love and Lucy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett
- Investigation of the water-supply showed the undoubted cause of the epidemic.
- Extract from : « Rural Hygiene » by Henry N. Ogden
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