Associations to the word «Pandemic»

Wiktionary

PANDEMIC, adjective. Widespread; general.
PANDEMIC, adjective. (medicine) Epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population.
PANDEMIC, noun. A pandemic disease; a disease that hits a wide geographical area and affects a large proportion of the population.

Dictionary definition

PANDEMIC, noun. An epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world.
PANDEMIC, adjective. Epidemic over a wide geographical area; "a pandemic outbreak of malaria".
PANDEMIC, adjective. Existing everywhere; "pandemic fear of nuclear war".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats