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Grammar : Noun |
Spell : pan-duh-moh-nee-uhm |
Phonetic Transcription : ˌpæn dəˈmoʊ ni əm |
Definition of pandemonium
Origin :- 1667, Pandæmonium, in "Paradise Lost" the name of the palace built in the middle of Hell, "the high capital of Satan and all his peers," coined by John Milton (1608-1674) from Greek pan- "all" (see pan-) + Late Latin daemonium "evil spirit," from Greek daimonion "inferior divine power," from daimon "lesser god" (see demon).
- Transferred sense "place of uproar" is from 1779; that of "wild, lawless confusion" is from 1865. Related: Pandemoniac; pandemoniacal; pandemonian; pandemonic.
- noun craziness, commotion
- The majesty of the law in his hands becomes at once a bludgeon and a pandemonium.
- Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
- And suddenly Chet found himself alone in a pandemonium of sound.
- Extract from : « The Finding of Haldgren » by Charles Willard Diffin
- They surrounded the bow of the boat, and then pandemonium broke loose.
- Extract from : « Tales of Fishes » by Zane Grey
- It seemed that around me must be bursting a pandemonium of sound.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 » by Various
- And so we rode into this pandemonium, not having the least idea where we were going.
- Extract from : « The O'Ruddy » by Stephen Crane
- Pandemonium broke loose in the smashing of glass and the thud of blows.
- Extract from : « Prairie Flowers » by James B. Hendryx
- It is a scene like Pandemonium—a second hell, but upon the ocean.
- Extract from : « The History of Tasmania , Volume II (of 2) » by John West
- The entire week of the first performance was nothing short of pandemonium.
- Extract from : « Quin » by Alice Hegan Rice
- A Pandemonium of shriekings and beseechings is succeeded by a stillness as of the tomb.
- Extract from : « An Outcast » by F. Colburn Adams
- Salem, the habitation of peace, had become, by this time a pandemonium.
- Extract from : « Dulcibel » by Henry Peterson
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