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Definition: Pandemonium |
PandemoniumNoun1. A state of extreme confusion and disorder. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pandemonium" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references) |
Etymology: Pandemonium \Pan`de*mo"ni*um\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression all demon.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Satire | PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer. When disturbed by his voice the ancient echoes clamor appropriate responses most gratifying to his pride of distinction. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Literature | Pandemonium (A). A perfect pandemonium. A bear-garden for disorder and licentiousness. In allusion to the parliament of hell in Milton's Paradise Lost, book i. (Greek, pan daimon, every demon.) (See Cordeliers. ). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: PandemoniumSynonyms: bedlam (n), chaos (n), topsy-turvydom (n), topsy-turvyness (n). (additional references) |
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Hell | Noun: hell, bottomless pit, place of torment; habitation of fallen angels; Pandemonium, Abaddon, Domdaniel; jahannan, sheol. |
Satan | Fallen angels, unclean spirits, devils; the rulers, the powers of darkness; inhabitants of Pandemonium; demon. |
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Crosswords: Pandemonium |
| Non-English Usage: "Pandemonium" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (pandemonium). |
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Screenplays | Pandemonium doesn't reign around hereit pours. (Tiny Toon Adventures; writing credit: Charles Adler; Pat Allee) Everywhere I look, everywhere, pure pandemoninium -- pandemonium. (1941; writing credit: Robert Zemeckis; Bob Gale) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pandemonium (2002) La capital del infierno Pandemonium (1997) Pandemonium (1997) | |
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| "Pandemonium" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pandemonium" is used about 66 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 66 | 41,290 |
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Expressions using "pandemonium": inhabitants of Pandemonium ♦ pandemonium broke out. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pandemonium | 114 |
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pandemonium 2 | 6 |
lyrics pandemonium | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "pandemonium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | potere (ado, bedlam, carrying-on, clutter, din, fracas, fray, hoopla, hoot, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, hurly burly, jangle, noise, pother, racket, rowdyism, rumpus, shindy, smash, uproar), rrëmujë (alarm, bustle, clutter, disarray, disorder, disturbance, dust, farrago, hash, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, litter, mess, mix up, moil, muss, pell mell, pie, pother, roistering, snafu, tangle, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, tumble, upheaval, upset, welter). (various references) | |
Arabic | موسيقى صاخبة (pop), هرج ومرج (astir, bedlam, fuss, helter-skelter, hubbub, hurly burly, shambles), هرج (buffoon, fool, fussiness, playfulness), عاصفة من التصفيق, ضوضاء (brawl, clamor, clamour, clutter, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly burly, plonk, pother, racket, row, rowdiness, rowdyism, rumpus, shouting, stink, tub-thumping, tumult), صخب (bustling, clamor, clamour, clatter, crash, furor, hubbub, hue and cry, hustle, mayhem, rattle, roar, roister, rowdiness, rush, squash, stink, uproar, vociferate), جلبة (clamor, clamour, clatter, din, fanfare, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly burly, noise, racket, roar, tumult, uproar), جحيم (hell, inferno). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свърталище на демони, хаос (anarchy, bedlam, chaos, clutter, interregnum, maze, mix, snafu, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, whirl), шум (ado, ballyhoo, bobbery, boom, buzz, clam, coil, discord, murmur, noise, noisiness, pother, rattle, reclame, row, sound, stir, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar), врява (ado, clamor, clamour, din, discord, fracas, fuss, hubbub, hue, hurly burly, kick up, noise, noisiness, outcry, pother, racket, row, ruckus, rumpus, shine, to-do, tumult, uproar), вертеп (den, hell, joint, kip, shebang, stew), ад (abyss, grave, hell, inferno, tartarus), бърлога (cubbyhole, delve, den, hole, house, lair, retreat, sanctum), безредие (anarchy, clutter, disarray, disorder, embroilment, imbroglio, misrule, negligence, pell mell, untidiness). (various references) | |
Czech | peklo (Abaddon, Gehenna, hell, hopscotch, inferno), zmatek (anarchy, bewilderment, chaos, circus, clutter, confusion, disarray, disorder, disturbance, embroilment, fluster, hash, hodge-podge, jumble, maze, mess up, mix up, moil, muddle, Mull, nonplus, non-plus, perplexity, perturbation, puzzlement, shambles, stew, tangle, tempest, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turnup, upset, welter), blázinec (bedlam, booby hatch, circus, confusion, jumble, lunatic asylum, madhouse, nut house, tangle). (various references) | |
Dutch | pandemonium. (various references) | |
Farsi | مرکزدوزخ , کاخ شیطان , غوغا (Affray, Clamor, Din, Fray, Hubbub, Jangle, Melee, Mob, Peal, Rave, Riot, Rumpus, Scrimmage, Scuffle, Tumult, Turmoil, Uproar), دوزخ (Hell, Inferno). (various references) | |
Finnish | pandemonium, sekasorto (chaos, confusion, disorder). (various references) | |
French | tumulte, tohu-bohu, charivari, chaos, chahut. (various references) | |
German | hölle (abyss, heck, hell, inferno, perdition, purgatory). (various references) | |
Greek | πανδαιμόνιο (uproar). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מ"ומ" (ado, bedlam, din, disturbance, fracas, mess, muss, riot, rout, ruction, stir, trouble, tumble, turmoil), תו"ו ובו"ו (chaos, emptiness, topsy turvy), שאול (abyss, borrowed, grave, hell, lent, loaned, lower world, underworld), א "רלמוסי" (chaos, confusion, disorder, pestilence, plaque, tumult, turmoil, upheaval), 'י" ום (hell, inferno, purgatory). (various references) | |
Hungarian | pokoli lárma. (various references) | |
Italian | pandemonium, pandemonio (bedlam, rumpus), finimondo (bedlam). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 伏"殿 (abode of demons, hotbed). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふくまで" (abode of demons, hotbed). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andemoniumpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pandemônio, pandêmico, tumulto (affray, agitation, bluster, broil, bruit, clamor, clamour, clutter, colorwash, colourwash, combustion, commotion, confusion, disorder, distemper, donor, factional, galeeny, hubby, outcry, rampage, riot, rout, ruction, rumpus, scuffle, shindy, stir, tempest, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar), desordem (affray, clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, discomposure, disorder, Donnybrook, fray, huddle, hugger mugger, hurst, jumble, litter, mess, misrule, muddle, mush, muss, pell mell, perturbation, riot, rough and tumble, rout, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scuffle, stir, topsy turvy, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, untidiness, uproar, upset), confusão (abashment, baffle, bedlam, bother, bungle, clutter, confounding, confusion, daze, disarray, discomfort, discomposure, disturbed, Donnybrook, embroilment, entanglement, fog, foul up, fuddle, hash, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, hubbub, huddle, hugger mugger, hurry, hurry-scurry, imbrue, intricate, involution, involvement, jumble, kettledrum, labyrinth, macaronic, maze, medley, mess, mind-breaker, mingle-mangle, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, moil, muddle, Mull, muss, olio, pell mell, perplexity, perturbation, pother, puddle, puzzle, Ravel, rough and tumble, rout, shuffle, situation whereby one and the same person unites two capacities for example debtor-creditor, skein, to-do, tumble, turbidity, turmoil). (various references) | |
Romanian | pandemoniu, iad (hell, inferno, lower world, nether world, the shades). (various references) | |
Russian | обиталище демонов, пандемониум. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | urnebes (commotion, hoopla, hurly burly, rumpus), skup zlih duhova. (various references) | |
Spanish | pandemonio, jaleo (commotion, dance, din, fuss, jumble, racket, row, shouting, to-do). (various references) | |
Swedish | pandemonium. (various references) | |
Turkish | kıyamet (doomsday, resurrection, ruckus, ruction, storm), gürültü (ado, bang, Charivari, clamor, clamour, clatter, coil, crash, din, discord, dustup, fracas, hoi polloi, hubble bubble, hubbub, hullabaloo, kick up, loudness, noise, noisiness, peal, pong, pother, racket, rag, razzle-dazzle, roar, roaring, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, shindy, sound, to-do, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, welter), şeytanların toplandığı yer. (various references) | |
Ukranian | сум'яття (alarm, helter-skelter, to-do, tumble, whirl), оселя демонів. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xứ quỷ nơi hỗn loạn, sự hỗn loạn tột đ, địa ngục (abyss). (various references) | |
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| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | daimonion, pan-. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pandemonium": pandemoniums. (additional references) | |
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"Pandemonium" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fandemonium, pandamonium, pandemanium, pandemoniam, pandemonious, pandemonism, pandemoniun, pandeonium, pandimonium, pandimoniun, pendemonium. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pandemonium" (pronounced pa'ndumō"nēum) |
| 7 | -u m ō" n ē u m | ammonium. |
| 6 | -m ō" n ē u m | harmonium. |
| 5 | -ō" n ē u m | gonium, plutonium, polonium, zirconium. |
| 4 | -n ē u m | condominium, geranium, hafnium, millennium, minium, neptunium, selenium, titanium, uranium. |
| 3 | -ē u m | alluvium, aquarium, atrium, auditorium, axiom, bacterium, barium, beryllium, cadmium, calcium, cesium, chromium, colloquium, compendium, consortium, crematorium, delirium, deuterium, disequilibrium, emporium, equilibrium, europium, fermium, gallium, gymnasium, helium, Herbarium, holmium, honorarium, idiom, indium, iridium, lawrencium, linoleum, lithium, magnesium, medium, moratorium, myocardium, nephridium, niobium, nobelium, opium, opprobrium, osmium, palladium, paramecium, petroleum, planetarium, Plasmodium, podium, potassium, premium, presidium, promethium, protium, psyllium, radium, requiem, rhodium, sodium, stadium, strontium, superpremium, symposium, tedium, tellurium, thallium, thorium, tritium, vanadium, yttrium. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-m-m-n-n-o-p-u" | |
-2 letters: pneumonia. | |
-3 letters: demonian, dopamine. | |
-4 letters: amidone, dipnoan, imponed, impound, miaoued, minuend, mundane, nonpaid, noumena, unaimed, unmined, unnamed. | |
-5 letters: adnoun, aidmen, ammine, ammino, amnion, anomie, daemon, daimen, daimon, dampen, domain, domine, duenna, emodin, eonian, immane, immune, impend, impone, madmen, maiden, maimed, manned, median, medina, medium, moaned, monied, mumped, nimmed, nomina, numina, opined, pained, panned, penman, pennia, pinnae, pinned, pneuma, podium, pomade, pommie, ponied, punned, undine, undone, unipod, unmade, unopen, unpaid. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-m-m-n-n-o-p-u" | |
+1 letter: pandemoniums. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 6E 64 65 6D 6F 6E 69 75 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- -. -.. . -- --- -. .. ..- -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01101101 01101111 01101110 01101001 01110101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a n d e m o n i u m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 006E 0064 0065 006D 006F 006E 0069 0075 006D |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5067807071798180758779 |
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