typhoid
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtaɪ.fɔɪd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
typhoid (not comparable)
- Characterised by or relating to typhus.
Noun
typhoid (countable and uncountable, plural typhoids)
- (pathology) Short for typhoid fever.
- 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 378:
- Typhoid may not worry people as it once did, but it still affects more than 20 million people a year around the world.
Derived terms
Translations
typhoid fever — see typhoid fever
References
- ^ “typhoid, adj. and n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
