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Grammar : Noun
Spell : pan-duh-moh-nee-uhm
Phonetic Transcription : ˌpæn dəˈmoʊ ni əm

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Définition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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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