pandemic

Definition of Pandemic in English :

1. pandemic

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

2. pandemic

epidemic over a wide geographical area

Example Sentences:
'a pandemic outbreak of malaria'

3. pandemic

existing everywhere

Example Sentences:
'pandemic fear of nuclear war'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Pandemic

adjective

1.

(of a disease) affecting persons over a wide geographical area; extensively epidemic

noun

2.

a pandemic disease

adjective

1.

prevalent over a whole area, country, etc.; universal; general; specif., epidemic over a large region

said of a disease

noun

2.

a pandemic disease

adj.

1. Widespread; general.

2. Medicine Epidemic over a wide geographic area and affecting a large proportion of the population: pandemic influenza.

n.

A pandemic disease.