What does Pandemic mean?

Definitions for Pandemic
pænˈdɛm ɪkpan·dem·ic

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. pandemicadjective

    an epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world

  2. pandemicadjective

    epidemic over a wide geographical area

    "a pandemic outbreak of malaria"

  3. pandemicadjective

    existing everywhere

    "pandemic fear of nuclear war"

Wiktionary

  1. pandemicnoun

    A pandemic disease; a disease that hits a wide geographical area and affects a large proportion of the population.

  2. pandemicadjective

    Widespread; general.

  3. pandemicadjective

    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.

  4. Etymology: pandemus, from πάν (equivalent to English pan-)Category:English words prefixed with pan-+ δῆμος

Wikipedia

  1. Pandemic

    A pandemic (from Greek πᾶν pan "all" and δῆμος demos "people") is an epidemic of disease that has spread across a large region; for instance multiple continents, or worldwide. A widespread endemic disease that is stable in terms of how many people are getting sick from it is not a pandemic. Further, flu pandemics generally exclude recurrences of seasonal flu. Throughout history, there have been a number of pandemics, such as smallpox and tuberculosis. One of the most devastating pandemics was the Black Death, which killed an estimated 75–200 million people in the 14th century. The current pandemics are HIV/AIDS and Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Other recent pandemics include the 1918 influenza pandemic (Spanish flu) and the 2009 flu pandemic (H1N1).

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  1. pandemic

    A pandemic is a worldwide outbreak of a specific disease or illness that affects a large number of people in multiple countries or continents. It typically occurs when a new strain of a virus emerges among humans, spreads, and causes severe illness because the population has little to no immunity against it. Pandemics can cause significant social disruption, economic loss, and general health crises.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Pandemicadjective

    affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic

  2. Pandemicnoun

    a pandemic disease

  3. Etymology: [L. pandemus, Gr. , ; pa^s, pa^n, all + the people: cf. F. pandmique.]

Wikidata

  1. Pandemic

    A pandemic is an epidemic of infectious disease that has spread through human populations across a large region; for instance multiple continents, or even worldwide. A widespread endemic disease that is stable in terms of how many people are getting sick from it is not a pandemic. Further, flu pandemics generally exclude recurrences of seasonal flu. Throughout history there have been a number of pandemics, such as smallpox and tuberculosis. More recent pandemics include the HIV pandemic and the H1N1 pandemics of 1918 and 2009.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Pandemic

    pan-dem′ik, adj. incident to a whole people, epidemic.—n. a pandemic disease.—n. Pandem′ia, a widespread disease. [Gr. pandēmiospas, pan, all, dēmos, the people.]

Editors Contribution

  1. Pandemic

    PANIC AND PARANOIA


    Submitted by grupiluv on March 30, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Pandemic in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Pandemic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Pandemic in a Sentence

  1. Chuck Todd:

    Dr. Fauci now finds himself at the center of the GOP’s pandemic messaging, which is a place where a public health official like him does not like to be.

  2. Peter Feaver:

    If the Democrats can make a credible case that we ended up in the pandemic through mismanagement, or that a problem that could have been moderate-sized became major-sized because we were slow to act and minimizing the problem, the attack ads write themselves, if that message sinks in, the public could simultaneously say,' the President finally figured out to how to beat this, but he got us into it in the first place.'.

  3. Sharon Castillo:

    We have made an unwavering commitment to ensure that our vaccine is both safe and effective before it is made available to the general public, in doing so, we have shared the sense of urgency and the drive to find health care solutions to this pandemic that have been the engine behind Operation Warp Speed. We appreciate the assistance that OWS is providing to ensure the vaccine is distributed to priority populations like health care workers and the vulnerable.

  4. Senator Burr:

    There's one thing that I can tell you about this : It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history, it is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic.

  5. Mark Wahlberg:

    It was just about finding the right story to tell at the right time, these movies are not easy to get made … But it's one of those things where since the pandemic, lots of things have happened to me personally, [with] all the uncertainty in the world, dealing with mortality, losing my mom, losing my other sister, losing so many friends.

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