pandemic

  1. Adjective.  Widespread; general.
  2. Adjective.  (medicine) Epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population.
  3. Noun.  A pandemic disease; a disease that hits a wide geographical area and affects a large proportion of the population.

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