epidemic disease vs plague

plague vs epidemic disease

epidemic disease and plague both are nouns.

epidemic disease is not a verb while plague is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
epidemic disease	Yes	No	No	No
plague	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, plague is a hyponym of epidemic disease; that is, plague is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than epidemic disease:

epidemic disease: any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people
plague: any epidemic disease with a high death rate

Other hyponyms of epidemic disease include pest, pestilence, pest, pestilence, pestis, Bornholm disease, diaphragmatic pleurisy, epidemic myalgia, epidemic pleurodynia, myosis.

epidemic disease (noun)	plague (noun)
any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people	an annoyance
	any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
	a swarm of insects that attack plants
	a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
	any epidemic disease with a high death rate

epidemic disease (verb)	plague (verb)
	annoy continually or chronically
	cause to suffer a blight

Difference between epidemic disease and plague

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