pandemic
noun /pænˈdemɪk/
/pænˈdemɪk/
- a disease that spreads over a whole country or the whole world
Topics Illnessc1大流行:蔓延到整个国家或整个世界 Collocations DictionaryPandemic is used after these nouns:- flu
- influenza
词源mid 17th cent.: from Greek pandēmos (from pan ‘all’ + dēmos ‘people’) + -ic.