| 单词 | pandemonium |
| 释义 | pandemonium (once / 5041 pages) n Pandemonium is chaos, total and utter craziness — like the stampede after your team won the championship, when everyone spilled onto the field at once, bouncing off each other. If you look carefully at the word pandemonium, you’ll see the word demon inside it. This makes sense, since the word pandemonium was coined in Milton’s Paradise Lost, where it was the name of the palace built in the middle of Hell. Milton wrote back in the 17th century. Nowadays, pandemonium crops up whenever journalists are describing a chaotic scene. High school students have been heard to use it to describe their lunchroom. WORD FAMILYpandemonium: pandemoniums USAGE EXAMPLESThe junior confidently drilled the Rose Bowl winner, sprinting away to celebrate amid pandemonium in the packed stadium. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) Prior to that, the entire crowd was in a state of pandemonium. New York Times(Dec 20, 2016) Instead, he wrote, he became an eyewitness to a murder and the ensuing "pandemonium". BBC(Dec 20, 2016) n a state of extreme confusion and disorder Syn|Hypo|Hyper bedlam, chaos, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness balagan a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian) confusion disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably |
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