| 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 | ||