Meaning For The Word Pandemic

Before the pandemic hit a word like quarantine with its exotic yet clinical phonemes evoking a sense of foreign invader in both its syllables and etymological origins seemed like something out of a horror movie.

Meaning for the word pandemic. That s a word you re prepared to hear in a film like contagion but certainly not in our real life social world. Pandemic is also used as a noun meaning a pandemic disease the who more specifically defines a pandemic as a worldwide spread of a new disease on march 11 the who officially declared the covid 19 outbreak a pandemic due to the global spread and severity of the disease. Epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population.

Pandemial obsolete pandemical obsolete panepidemic antonym. The word pandemic has roots in latin and the greek pandemos meaning common public breaking it down further pan means all and demos means people as evidenced in a. Widespread endemic diseases with a stable number of infected.

Of a disease existing in almost all of an area or in almost all of a group of people animals. Pandemic definition is occurring over a wide geographic area such as multiple countries or continents and typically affecting a significant proportion of the population. A pandemic from greek πᾶν pan all and δῆμος demos people is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has spread across a large region for instance multiple continents or worldwide affecting a substantial number of people.

Epidemic over a large area. Coronavirus and other related pandemic words including quarantine were among the runners up for merriam webster s. Also of or pertaining to a disease of this nature.

Pandemic definition of a disease prevalent throughout an entire country continent or the whole world. A widespread endemic disease with a stable number of infected people is not a pandemic. Merriam webster on monday announced pandemic as its word of year.

A pandemic is an occurrence of a disease that affects many people over a very wide area.