noun
pandemonium
pan-dih-MOH-nee-uhm
noun
1
A state of wild, noisy disorder or chaos.
"Pandemonium broke out in the stadium after the winning goal."
"The fire alarm caused pandemonium in the crowded office."
How to Use Pandemonium
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishTotal chaos and noisy confusion, usually involving a crowd of people.
Common pairings
pandemonium broke out
sheer pandemonium
cause pandemonium
Word Forms
pandemoniums plural, pandemonia plural
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Etymology
Coined by the poet John Milton in Paradise Lost (1667) as the name of the capital of Hell, from Greek pan- ("all") + Late Latin daemonium ("demon") — literally "place of all demons." The word later came to mean any scene of chaos and uproar.