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prepandemic

adj

Etymology

From pre- + pandemic.

  1. derived from *deh₂-✻ — “to divide, share”
  2. derived from *peh₂-✻ — “to protect, shepherd”
  3. derived from πάνδημος — “of or belonging to all the people, public”
  4. formed as prepandemic — “pre- + pandemic”

Definitions

  1. Before a pandemic.

    • The growth, fueled by strong consumer spending and robust business investment, brought output, adjusted for inflation, back to its prepandemic level.
    • The things that used to make my day in prepandemic times were small and unplanned for — noticing a street sign that prohibited the capture of pigeons or overhearing one stranger scolding another for ordering salad at a barbecue restaurant.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for prepandemic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA