English noun: epidemic disease | |||
1. | epidemic disease (state) any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people | ||
Broader (hypernym) | infectious disease | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | Bornholm disease, diaphragmatic pleurisy, epidemic myalgia, epidemic pleurodynia, myosis, pest, pest, pestilence, pestilence, pestis, plague, plague | ||