Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - pandemonium
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Pandemonium
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n. 1 uproar; utter confusion. 2 a scene of this. Etymology: mod.L (place of all demons in Milton's Paradise Lost) f. PAN- + Gk daimon DEMON ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
2.
1. (P.) обиталище демонов; ад 2. ад кромешный she can turn the place into a pandemonium in a week —- она способна за неделю превратить дом в ад 3. смятение, шум, скандал; столпотворение pandemonium again reigned in the class —- в классе опять был страшный шум ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
3.
noun 1) обиталище демонов; ад 2) fig. ад кромешный, столпотворение; There was pandemonium in court as the judge gave his summing up. Pandemonium broke out as they ran into the street shouting. ...Англо-русский словарь
4.
If there is pandemonium in a place, the people there are behaving in a very noisy and uncontrolled way. There was pandemonium in court as the judge gave his summing up... N-UNCOUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
5.
~ n a situation in which there is a lot of noise because people are angry, confused or frightened (Pandemonium broke out when the results were announced.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
- 1667, as Pandжmonium, in "Paradise Lost" the name of the palace built in the middle of Hell, "the high capital of Satan and all his peers," coined by Milton from Gk. pan- "all" + L.L. dжmonium "evil spirit," from Gk. daimonion "divine power," from daimon "lesser god." Transfered sense "place of uproar" is from 1779. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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