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# pandemic

«pandemic» in Mova's school dictionary: **an outbreak of an infectious disease that spreads across…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a pandemic, pandemics); adjective (pandemic)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pandemic is an outbreak of an infectious disease that spreads across many countries or the whole world and makes very many people ill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pandemic/#m1)

2) As an adjective, pandemic means spreading everywhere. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pandemic/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In health and science lessons, the COVID-19 pandemic is a recent example: schools closed, people wore masks, and vaccines were made. In history, the Black Death and the great flu after the First World War were pandemics. An «epidemic» is a big outbreak in one area; a pandemic is worldwide.

### examples

- The COVID-19 pandemic closed schools around the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pandemic/#x1)
- During the pandemic we learnt at home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pandemic/#x2)
- The Black Death was a terrible pandemic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pandemic/#x3)
- Washing hands helps slow down a pandemic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pandemic/#x4)
- Scientists made vaccines during the pandemic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pandemic/#x5)
- A pandemic spreads to many countries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pandemic/#x6)
- Grandma remembers the pandemic lockdowns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pandemic/#x7)

### note

Countable: pandemics. Trap: «pandemic» (worldwide) vs «epidemic» (one region) vs «endemic» (always present in a place). «Pan-» means «all», as in «panorama».

### In the corpora

- [In 2020 it spread across the whole world because nobody's body knew it yet: that is what a pandemic means.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/1/)
- [A pandemic is a new disease spreading across many countries because nobody has immunity yet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pandemic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pandemic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.