typhoid

English

Etymology

From typhus +‎ -oid.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtaɪ.fɔɪd/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Adjective

typhoid (not comparable)

  1. Characterised by or relating to typhus.

Noun

typhoid (countable and uncountable, plural typhoids)

  1. (pathology) Ellipsis of 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.

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References

  1. ^ “typhoid, adj. and n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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