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pandemic

noun/pænˈdɛmɪk/

A2CEFR level
15/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister

A disease prevalent across a country or the world.

The pandemic reshaped how clinics triage patients.

Similar: global outbreak

Origin: Greek pandemos 'of all the people'.

Topic: Public health in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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