pandemonium

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌpæn.dɪˈməʊ.ni.əm/
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• General-American: /ˌpæn.dəˈmoʊ.ni.əm/
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• rhymes with -əʊniəm
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• CMU ARPABET: P AE2 N D IH0 M OW1 N IY0 AH0 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Coined by John Milton in Paradise Lost as Pandæmonium, from Ancient Greek πᾶν (pân, “all”) (equivalent to pan-) + Late Latin daemonium (“evil spirit, demon”), from Ancient Greek δαιμόνιον (daimónion, “deity”).

45 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: хаос (haos) — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• Cebuano: kasibaw — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• Dutch: pandemonium — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• Dutch: heksenketel — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• Finnish: sekasorto — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• Finnish: kaaos — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• French: chaos — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• Galician: pandemonio — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• German: Tohuwabohu — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• German: Tumult — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• German: Anarchie — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• German: Hexensabbat — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• Greek: πανδαιμόνιο (pandaimónio) — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• Greek: χαμός (chamós) — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• Greek: της τρελής (tis trelís) — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• Icelandic: ringulreið — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• Polish: pandemonium — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• Portuguese: pandemônio — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• Portuguese: pandemónio — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• Portuguese: caos — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• Romanian: pandemoniu — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• Romanian: haos — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• Spanish: pandemonio — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• Spanish: pandemónium — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• Tagalog: kaguluhan — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• Urdu: شور (śor) — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• Urdu: افراتفری (afrā-tafrī) — chaos; tumultuous protest or disorder
• Cebuano: kasibaw — an outburst; loud, riotous uproar
• Dutch: pandemonium — an outburst; loud, riotous uproar
• Dutch: heksenketel — an outburst; loud, riotous uproar
• Finnish: mekastus — an outburst; loud, riotous uproar
• French: chaos — an outburst; loud, riotous uproar
• French: charivari — an outburst; loud, riotous uproar
• French: tumulte — an outburst; loud, riotous uproar
• French: chahut — an outburst; loud, riotous uproar
• French: tohu-bohu — an outburst; loud, riotous uproar
• German: Aufruhr — an outburst; loud, riotous uproar
• German: Gewaltausbruch — an outburst; loud, riotous uproar
• German: Hexensabbat — an outburst; loud, riotous uproar
• Greek: πανδαιμόνιο (pandaimónio) — an outburst; loud, riotous uproar
• Portuguese: confusão — an outburst; loud, riotous uproar
• Portuguese: balbúrdia — an outburst; loud, riotous uproar
• Portuguese: tumulto — an outburst; loud, riotous uproar
• Romanian: haos — an outburst; loud, riotous uproar
• Tagalog: kaguluhan — an outburst; loud, riotous uproar