Definitions for pandemics

pandemics pan·dem·ic

Spelling: [pan-dem-ik]
IPA: /pænˈdɛm ɪk/

Pandemics is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 714 anagrams from letters in pandemics (acdeimnps).

Definitions for pandemics

noun

  1. a pandemic disease.

adjective

  1. (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.
  2. general; universal:

Origin of pandemics

1660-70; Late Latin pandēm(us) Greek pándēmos common, public (pan- pan- + dêm(os) the people + -os adj. suffix) + -ic

Examples for pandemics

These are people who have to live with the pandemic every day, and at last, here is their story.

“There are sexy issues tied to this pandemic,” she says unapologetically.

The Ebola pandemic in West Africa is having a disastrous effect on tourism on the whole continent.

Uranian Aphrodite was distinguished from her pandemic sister by chastened lust-repelling loveliness.

If there is a pandemic to be actually worried about, it's the pandemic of fear as we approach the midterm elections.

In 2009 nearly all influenza cases were caused by the pandemic H1N1 virus, driving the previously dominant H3N2 underground.

The evidence that the great epidemics of influenza are due to some general and pandemic influence is conclusive.

The disease is nearly always epidemic, though at intervals it appears to be pandemic and in certain districts almost endemic.

Once you start to look at this pandemic there's no way you would ever turn your back.

pandemic, pan-dem′ik, adj. incident to a whole people, epidemic.

Word Value for pandemics
Scrable

15

Words with friends

19

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