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pandemy

pandemy is the archaic form of pandemic.

Meaning of pandemic

Noun

pandemic (plural pandemics)

  1. A pandemic disease; a disease that affects a wide geographical area and a large proportion of the population.
    • Those diseases which have some strong resemblance in their general characters, and attack many individuals in a large extent of country at about the same time, are commonly called epidemics. If all, or about all the inhabitants of a country be similarly attacked, at or near the same time, with a...1832 September 5, J. A. Allen, “Epidemics. Remarks on the Etiology and Character of Epidemics.”, in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, volume VII, number 4, Boston, Mass.: Printed and published...
    Synonyms:
    pandemia
    1. (specifically) The COVID-19 pandemic.

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Forms of pandemy

pluralpandemies

Questions about pandemy

What is pandemy the archaic form of?
Pandemy is the archaic form of pandemic.

Words near pandemy in the dictionary

  1. pandemonium architecture
  2. pandemonium architectures
  3. pandemonium effect
  4. pandemoniums
  5. Pandemos
  6. pandemy
  7. pandenominational
  8. pander
  9. panderage
  10. pandered
  11. panderer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pandemy (page history and authors); pandemic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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