• (RP, GA) IPA: /pænˈdɛmɪk/

pandemic

1. (epidemiology) Of a disease#Noun|disease: epidemic#Adjective|epidemic over a wide geographical area and affect#Verb|affecting a large proportion of the population; also, of or pertaining to a disease of this nature.

   Synonyms: pandemial, pandemical, panepidemic

   Antonyms: nonpandemic

   World War I might have continued indefinitely if not for a pandemic outbreak of influenza.

2. (usually, derogatory) general#Adjective|General, widespread.

   Synonyms: common, ubiquitous, universal, Thesaurus:widespread

• German: pandemisch
• Italian: pandemico
• Portuguese: pandémico (Portugal), pandêmico (Brazil)
• Russian: пандеми́ческий
• Spanish: pandémico

pandemic (plural pandemics)

1. (epidemiology) A pandemic disease#Noun|disease; a disease that affect#Verb|affects a wide geographical area and a large proportion of the population.

   Synonyms: pandemia, Thesaurus:pandemic

• French: pandémie
• German: Pandemie
• Italian: pandemia
• Portuguese: pandemia
• Russian: пандеми́я
• Spanish: pandemia

pandemic (not comparable)

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology, rare) Alternative letter-case form of Pandemic#English|Aphrodite Pandemos}}, the earthly [[aspect of the Greek#Adjective|Greek goddess of beauty and love#Noun|love Aphrodite and her Roman#Adjective|Roman counterpart Venus, as contrast#Verb|contrasted with the heavenly aspect known as {{w]] (“of {{w”)

• (RP, GA) IPA: /pænˈdɛmɪk/

pandemic (not comparable)

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Of Aphrodite Pandemos, the earthly aspect of the Greek#Adjective|Greek goddess of beauty and love#Noun|love Aphrodite and her Roman#Adjective|Roman counterpart Venus, as contrast#Verb|contrasted with the heavenly aspect known as Aphrodite Urania: earthly, physical#Adjective|physical, sensual.

   Synonyms: pandemian

   Antonyms: heavenly, spiritual, Uranian

   • 1852 January – 1853 April​, Charles Kingsley, Jun., “She Stoops to Conquer”, in Hypatia: Or, New Foes with an Old Face. […] In Two Volumes, volume II, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], published 1853, OCLC 1932017 ↗, page 109 ↗:

     That was spoken of the celestial Aphrodite, whose symbol is the tortoise, the emblem of domestic modesty and chastity: not of that baser Pandemic one.