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Synonyms for pandemic
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : pan-dem-ik |
| Phonetic Transcription : pænˈdɛm ɪk |
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Définition of pandemic
Origin :- 1660s, from Late Latin pandemus, from Greek pandemos "pertaining to all people; public, common," from pan- "all" (see pan-) + demos "people" (see demotic). Modeled on epidemic. The noun is first recorded 1853, from the adjective.
- adj universal
- Uranian Aphrodite was distinguished from her Pandemic sister by chastened lust-repelling loveliness.
- Extract from : « Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece » by John Addington Symonds
- Pandemic, pan-dem′ik, adj. incident to a whole people, epidemic.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) » by Various
- The disease is nearly always epidemic, though at intervals it appears to be pandemic and in certain districts almost endemic.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 » by Various
- The evidence that the great epidemics of influenza are due to some general and pandemic influence is conclusive.
- Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I » by Various
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