epidemics
Sayep-i-DEM-iks/ˌɛpɪˈdɛmɪks/
- 1Plural of epidemic.
Public health agencies track epidemics across multiple regions at once.
Several epidemics swept through the colony within a single decade.
Note
A regular plural, formed with a simple -s. Only the noun takes it. Epidemic also works as an adjective (an epidemic outbreak), and English adjectives never pluralize, so several epidemic diseases is correct and "epidemics diseases" is not. The plural fits the countable idea of separate outbreaks, as in several epidemics in a decade. It stretches to the figurative uses too, as in epidemics of fear.
epidemics is a form of epidemic
epidemic, noun: A widespread disease that affects large numbers of people within a population. Full entry
- Forms
- epidemicepidemics plural
- Spelling
- epidemic → epidemics: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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