Толковый словарь английского языка - epidemic
Epidemic
epidemic
I. adjective see: demagogue Date: 1603 affecting or tending to affect a disproportionately large number of individuals within a population, community, or region at the same time , 2. excessively prevalent, contagious 4 , of, relating to, or constituting an ~ , ~al adjective ~ally adverb ~ity noun II. noun Date: 1757 an outbreak of ~ disease, an outbreak or product of sudden rapid spread, growth, or development
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n. & adj. --n. 1 a widespread occurrence of a disease in a community at a particular time. 2 such a disease. 3 (foll. by of) a wide prevalence of something usu. undesirable. --adj. in the nature of an epidemic (cf. ENDEMIC). Derivatives epidemically adv. Etymology: F {eacute}pid{eacute}mique f. {eacute}pid{eacute}mie f. LL epidemia f. Gk epidemia prevalence of disease f. epidemios (adj.) (as EPI-, demos the people) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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