Definition of epidemic Epidemic
/ɛˌpʌdɛˈmɪk/ - [epudemik] - ep•i•dem•ic
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What does epidemic mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: epidemics |
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| epidemic - a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time | ||
| outbreak, irruption, eruption a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition); "the outbreak of hostilities" | ||
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| epidemic - (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously; "an epidemic outbreak of influenza" | ||
| endemical, endemic native to or confined to a certain region; "the islands have a number of interesting endemic species" | ||
| ecdemic of or relating to a disease that originates outside the locality in which it occurs | ||
| medical specialty, medicine the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard" | ||
| epiphytotic (of plants) epidemic among plants of a single kind especially over a wide area; "an epiphytotic blight of potatoes"; "epiphytotic conditions associated with a single-plant agriculture" | ||
| epizootic (of animals) epidemic among animals of a single kind within a particular region; "an epizootic disease" | ||
| pandemic existing everywhere; "pandemic fear of nuclear war" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- epidemic (Noun)
A widespread disease that affects many individuals in a population. - epidemic (Noun)
An occurrence of a disease or disorder in a population at a frequency higher than that expected in a given time period. - epidemic (Adjective)
Like or having to do with an epidemic; widespread.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- epidemic (a.)
Alt. of Epidemical - epidemic (n.)
An epidemic disease. - epidemic (n.)
Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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epidemic
Sudden increase in the incidence rate of a disease to a value above normal, affecting large numbers of people and spread over a wide area. -
epidemic
Spreading rapidly and extensively by infection and affecting many individuals in an area or a population at the same time.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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epidemic
-al, ep-i-dem′ik, -al, adj. affecting a community at a certain time: general.—n. Epidem′ic, a disease falling on great numbers in one place, simultaneously or in succession.—adv. Epidem′ically.—n. Epidemiol′ogy, the science of epidemics. [Gr. epidēmos, general—epi, among, dēmos, the people.]
Wikipedia 
- An epidemic is a disease that goes over a large area and lots of people. Epidemics are when a diease goes from person to person faster than doctors thought it would. If the disease spreads over the whole world, sometimes it is called a pandemic.
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🔤- epidemic, noun, singular of epidemics.
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