Pandemonium is wild uproar and confusion. Absolute pandemonium, pandemonium broke out, scenes of pandemonium.
It is a made word: Milton invented Pandaemonium in Paradise Lost as the name of the capital city of hell, built by the fallen angels, and it means the place of all demons. Two centuries later it meant simply a great deal of noise.
1nounpandemoniumWild uproar and confusion.
“When the fire alarm went off during the concert, there was pandemonium.”
pandemonium is an uproar.
Coined by John Milton in Paradise Lost from Greek pan, all, plus daemonium, a demon — the place of all demons.
Latin
daemonium — evil spirit, demon
Ancient Greek
πᾶν — all
English, today
pandemonium
From pan- + daemonium. coined by John Milton in Paradise Lost as Pandæmonium, from Ancient Greek πᾶν (“all”) (equivalent to pan-) + Latin daemonium (“evil spirit, demon”), from Ancient Greek δαιμόνιον (“deity”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA