pandemonium
noun
wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
pandemoniums
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pluralof pandemonium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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They were all completely open at the front, with their remarkable contents, pandemoniums of merchandise, exposed upon a precarious sidewalk of uneven parallel boards elevated two or three feet above the road.
From Cytherea by Joseph Hergesheimer
The manufacturing towns of England are mostly pandemoniums of smoke or blast-furnace fumes.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake
My friends called these pandemoniums the hells of Montezuma.
From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
He must have fought for life in the depths and pandemoniums, to achieve that excellence of equipment which makes men turn to him for his word and his strength.
From Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation by Will Levington Comfort
Forty or fifty years before, the guard-ships were generally little better than floating pandemoniums.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Frederick Whymper
