pandemonium
noun/ˌpændəˈməʊniəm/
/ˌpændəˈməʊniəm/
[uncountable]- a situation in which there is a lot of noise and activity with a great lack of order, especially because people are feeling angry or frightened synonym chaos
- Pandemonium broke out when the news was announced.
- There was pandemonium in the classroom till the head appeared.
Extra Examples- The children got lost amid the pandemonium.
- There was complete pandemonium when the tent collapsed.
- It was absolute pandemonium in there.
Word Originmid 17th cent.: modern Latin (denoting the place of all demons, in the English poet Milton's Paradise Lost), from pan- ‘all’ + Greek daimōn ‘demon’.
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