Meaning & use

pandemonium

noun·Advanced

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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