pandemics
- 1Plural of pandemic.
Several global pandemics have reshaped public health policy over the past century.
Researchers compared two influenza pandemics to understand how viruses evolve.
Note
The ending is the ordinary -s, and only the noun can take it. Pandemic is also an adjective, as in a pandemic disease, or in rare classical use the earthly love of Aphrodite Pandemos. Adjectives take no plural, so pandemics always names outbreaks themselves. The plural also leaves behind the specific sense of the COVID-19 pandemic: to speak of pandemics is to talk about such diseases in general, often comparing one with another.
pandemics is a form of pandemic
pandemic, noun: A disease that spreads over a wide geographical area and affects a large proportion of the population. Full entry
- Forms
- pandemicpandemics plural
- Spelling
- pandemic → pandemics: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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