English Dictionary

pandemic

IPA（発音記号）

/pænˈdɛmɪk/

形容詞

軽蔑的 通常

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

日本語の意味

（疫学）広い地域にわたって流行し、多くの人々に影響を与える病気、またはその性質を持つ病気

The pandemic influenza overwhelmed hospitals across multiple continents.

インフルエンザの世界的大流行は複数の大陸の病院を圧倒した。

意味（1）

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

The chaotic breakdown of public health as World War I dragged on is widely recognized as exacerbating the disease burden of the pandemic outbreak of influenza in 1918.

意味（2）

(usually derogatory) General, widespread.

A former age insisted upon the efficacy of scarlet curtains and red broad-cloth in small-pox—a succeeding age thinks it has proved the practice superstitious,—or they refer to it fancy. Now that said fancy is an element in the constitution of man, possibly more powerful in its effects upon the cure or aggravation of disease, than all the drugs in all the chemists' laboratories in all the towns of the world. For it is universal and not partial, pandemic and not solitary.

more pandemic （ comparative ）

most pandemic （ superlative ）