epidemic disease

1. 1.

   any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people

   Broaderinfectious disease

   Narrowerplagueepidemic pleurodynia

Questions about epidemic disease

What does epidemic disease mean?

epidemic disease means "any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people".

Is epidemic disease a common word?

epidemic disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.