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Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.
Pete Townshend

Meaning of "endemic" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ENDEMIC

From New Latin endēmicus, from Greek endēmos native, from en-² + dēmos the people.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ENDEMIC

endemic  [ɛnˈdɛmɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ENDEMIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Endemic can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ENDEMIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

endemic

Endemism

Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. The extreme opposite of endemism is cosmopolitan distribution. Another term for a species that is endemic, is precinctive – which applies to species that are restricted to a defined geographical area.

Definition of endemic in the English dictionary

The definition of endemic in the dictionary is present within a localized area or peculiar to persons in such an area. Other definition of endemic is an endemic disease or plant.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ENDEMIC


academic
ˌækəˈdɛmɪk
alchemic
ælˈkɛmɪk
anthemic
ænˈθɛmɪk
biochemic
ˌbaɪəʊˈkɛmɪk
chernozemic
ˌtʃɜːnəʊˈzɛmɪk
ecdemic
ɛkˈdɛmɪk
emic
ˈɛmɪk
epidemic
ˌɛpɪˈdɛmɪk
hyperendemic
ˌhaɪpərɛnˈdɛmɪk
ischaemic
ɪˈskɛmɪk
ischemic
ɪˈskɛmɪk
myxoedemic
ˌmɪksɪˈdɛmɪk
nonacademic
ˌnɒnækəˈdɛmɪk
pandemic
pænˈdɛmɪk
polemic
pəˈlɛmɪk
polydemic
ˌpɒlɪˈdɛmɪk
postischemic
ˌpəʊstɪˈskɛmɪk
sachemic
seɪˈtʃɛmɪk
systemic
sɪˈstɛmɪk
theoremic
ˌθɪəˈrɛmɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ENDEMIC

endearingly
endearingness
endearment
endeavorer
endeavour
endeavourer
endeavourment
endecagon
endeictic
endeixis
endemical
endemically
endemicity
endemiology
endemism
endenizen
ender
Enderby Land
endergonic
endermatic

WORDS THAT END LIKE ENDEMIC

anemic
antiacademic
demic
epistemic
glycaemic
glycemic
hemic
hyperglycemic
hypoglycaemic
hypoglycemic
interepidemic
interpandemic
leukemic
mnemic
myxedemic
phonemic
racemic
totemic
unacademic
uremic

Synonyms and antonyms of endemic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ENDEMIC»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «endemic» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of endemic

Translation of «endemic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ENDEMIC

Find out the translation of endemic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of endemic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «endemic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

常见的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

endémico
570 millions of speakers

English

endemic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्थानिक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المتوطنة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

эндемичных
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

endêmico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্থানীয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

endémique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Endemik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

endemisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

風土性の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

풍토병의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Endemik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đặc hữu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆண்டு முழுவதும் தோன்றும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विशिष्ट ठिकाणी असलेल्या लोकांना होणारा रोग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yöresel
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

endemico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

endemicznych
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ендемічних
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

endemic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ενδημικά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

endemiese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

endemisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

endemisk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of endemic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ENDEMIC»

The term «endemic» is quite widely used and occupies the 30.940 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ENDEMIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «endemic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «endemic» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about endemic

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10 QUOTES WITH «ENDEMIC»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word endemic.
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Eric Alterman
Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.
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Ron Fournier
Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told 'National Journal' that the country's economic woes are deep and endemic.
3
Molly Ivins
I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.
4
Paul Johnson
Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the mind, it is by no means confined to weak, feeble, or commonplace intellects; as history sadly records, its carriers have included men and women of otherwise powerful and subtle thoughts.
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Mitch Landrieu
Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically.
6
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
In the tropical and subtropical regions, endemic malaria takes first place almost everywhere among the causes of morbidity and mortality, and it constitutes the principal obstacle to the acclimatization of Europeans in these regions.
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Kathleen Troia McFarland
As long as the United States - and the world - gets its oil from the Middle East, we will be drawn into the endless crises that seem endemic to the region. American energy independence would not only liberate us, it would also drive down the worldwide price of oil.
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James McGreevey
Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.
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Harry Shearer
When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.
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Pete Townshend
Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENDEMIC»

Discover the use of endemic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to endemic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Emerging and Endemic Pathogens: Advances in Surveillance, ...
This volume highlights recent advances in the tracking, detecting, and identifying of emerging and endemic pathogens throughout the world.
Kevin P. O'Connell, Evan W. Skowronski, Alexander Sulakvelidze, 2010
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Endemic Cretinism
Even in developed countries, iodine deficiency is re-emerging (as in New South Wales in 19% of children) with the result of significantly reduced numbers of gifted children (though this is not cretinism per se).
John Dennison, Charles Oxnard, Peter Obendorf, 2011
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Mycotoxins, endemic nephropathy and urinary tract tumours
This volume contains the proceedings of an international meeting on mycotoxins, endemic nephropathy and urinary tract tumors held at IARC, Lyon.
Marcel Castegnaro, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1991
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The Fight Against Malaria in Malaria-Endemic Countries
Master's Thesis from the year 2004 in the subject Health Science, grade: sehr gut, University of Bonn (Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultat), 116 entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: Abschlussarbeit ...
Petra Heyen, 2013
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The Climate of the United States and Its Endemic Influences: ...
ENDEMIC INFLUENCES IN GENERAL. A correct knowledge of endemic diseases, a desideratum in our professional literature. — As endemic influences are dependent on a multiplicity of diversified causes, the effects are correspondently ...
Samuel Forry, 1842
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Biogeography of the Endemic Balkan Ground-beetles ...
Among the other basic works on carabids which also provide detailed information about endemic Balkan taxa, those by Apfelbeck (1904), Netolitzky (1912), Rambousek (1912), Bu- resch & Kantardjieva (1928), Hieke & Wrase (1988), Wrase ...
Vasil Borisov Georgiev, V. P. Sakalian, B. V. Georgiev, 1997
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The Endemic Influence of Evil Government: Illustrated in a ...
Illustrated in a View of the Climate, Topography, and Diseases, of the Island of Minorca, with Medical Statistics of a Voyage of Circumnavigation of the Globe, and an Account of Other Service, Both Ashore and Afloat Jonathan Messersmith  ...
Jonathan Messersmith Foltz, 1843
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Grasses: Systematics and Evolution
(CSIRO: Melbourne) Grasses Endemic Grass Genera of Maharashtra State, Peninsular India C.B. Salunkhe Department of Botany, Krishna Mahavidyalaya, Shivnagar, Rethare (BK.) 415 108 (M.S.) India. Abstract The ubiquitous grasses,  ...
Surrey W. L. Jacobs, 2000
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Association of an endemic mountain pine beetle population ...
This association appears to be an important factor affecting the dynamics of endemic level populations. Within the 20 plots, the endemic populations present tended to concentrate on trees infected with A. mellea. Regardless of the host ...
Borys M. Tkacz, Richard F. Schmitz, Intermountain Research Station (Ogden, Utah), 1985
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Practical Observations on Cholera, and other epidemic, ...
Intermittent Fevers, or Agnes, which are endemic, might also be adduced as arising from marsh miasma, in damp and marshy districts. Want of food, with cold and moisture, however generated and applied to the body, aided by uncleanness  ...
Frederick HANHAM, 1850

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ENDEMIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term endemic is used in the context of the following news items.
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First real-life trial finds oral cholera vaccine protects against endemic
The findings lend support to the use of the vaccine in routine mass vaccination programmes to help to control cholera in endemic countries. «Medical Xpress, Jul 15»
2
A 'hidden epidemic' in the US has ballooned into a public-health …
Even a medical doctor who lived in a town where Lyme disease is endemic, for example, went undiagnosed and untreated for years. (Read his ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»
3
Latest from Iran
Hundreds and hundreds of years of endemic racism in the United States. What is it exactly going to take to make a difference? Ansari: Excellent ... «Press TV, Jul 15»
4
Prevalence of malaria parasites in adults and its determinants in …
Therefore, a demographic surveillance site was used to conduct a household survey of adults in the malaria endemic area of Maseno division ... «7thSpace Interactive, Jul 15»
5
Diving in Antique? Beware of 'garaban'
HELL'S fire sea anemone, locally called “garaban,” is endemic to the waters of the Indo-Pacific. FLORD NICSON CALAWAG/INQUIRER ... «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
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Charity warns of a 'deeply worrying' lack of support for people …
People living with dementia are being forced to rely on family and friends for their care because of an “endemic and deeply worrying” lack of ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
7
Social segregation is endemic… in private and state schools
Will Hutton focuses on the part independent schools play in segregating young people by social class (“As long as we are divided by our ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
8
Transparency International: Endemic corruption permeating all …
Corruption in Azerbaijan is widely perceived to be endemic and deeply institutionalised – permeating all spheres of public life, with entrenched ... «Panorama.am, Jul 15»
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Financial problems 'now endemic' in NHS England, says King's Fund
A hospital ward. The King's Fund warns that already unprecedented deficits reported by trusts for the last financial year will be much worse in ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Bullying of hospital's emergency staff 'endemic'
The emergency unit at Wales' biggest hospital has a "culture of bullying, harassment and inappropriate behaviour", an inquiry has found. «BBC News, Jul 15»

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