Meaning & use
pandemonium
Wild and noisy disorder or confusion.
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Pandemonium broke out in the stadium when the home team scored in the final second.
The fire alarm triggered pandemonium in the crowded hallway.
A note on using this word
Pandemonium originally named the capital of Hell in Milton's Paradise Lost, which gives the word its sense of hellish uproar.
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