pandemonium

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Then chaos came, and pandemonium -- a frantic babel of suggestion and exhortation from the crowd.

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  1. noun A very noisy place: "The whole lobby was a perfect pandemonium, and the din was terrific” (Jerome K. Jerome).
  2. noun Wild uproar or noise. See Synonyms at noise.

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  • It was pandemonium, and the man in charge became so excited that he lost control of all the knowledge he ever had. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • The word pandemonium , meaning "mass disorder and chaos," was coined by the poet John Milton in his epic poem Paradise Lost in 1667. —  The Word Detective
  • Milton himself spelled the word pandemonium and concocted it by combining the Greek pan (all) with the Latin daemonium (demon). —  The Word Detective
  • Except the pandemonium was now somewhere else, with me no longer part of it. —  The Tartan Sell - Jonathan Gash - Lovejoy 10
  • After the pandemonium was under way for some time elsewhere and the higher frequencies were reached, his immediate surroundings started to come into resonance. —  Prodigal genius - Tesla Biography
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  1. From Pandæmonium, capital of Hell in Paradise Lost, an epic poem by John Milton : Greek pan-, pan- + Late Latin daemonium, demon (from Greek daimonion, from daimōn, lesser god, demon; see demon).
 

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/pændikˈmoʊnɪum/
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