chancre
/ˈʃæŋ.kɚ/
chancre noun: skin lesion, sometimes associated with certain contagious diseases such as syphilis.
Noun
chancre (plural chancres)
- Skin lesion, sometimes associated with certain contagious diseases such as syphilis.
- The nurse stood up and went towards the door. At that point the caretaker said to me, "It's a chancre she's got." I didn't understand, so I looked at the nurse and saw that she had a bandage round her head just below the eyes. Where her nose should have been, the bandage was flat. Her face seemed...1942, Albert Camus, 'The Stranger' (a.k.a 'The Outsider'), Joseph Laredo translation, Ch.1
- If the primary stage is not treated the chancre will disappear after four to eight weeks but remember that the germ is still in the body.1981 February 14, Robert Taylor, “Stages Of Syphilis”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 17
chancre meaning in Tamil
chancre in Tamil
- கிரந்திபுண், வன்கிரந்தி
Examples of chancre in a sentence
- At that point the caretaker said to me, "It's a chancre she's got." I didn't understand, so I looked at the nurse and saw that she had a bandage round her head just below the eyes.1942, Albert Camus, 'The Stranger' (a.k.a 'The Outsider'), Joseph Laredo translation, Ch.1:
- Vitaly's eyes are dry and red, and on his lower lip he is sporting a chancre the size of a tangerine.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 97:
Forms of chancre
| plural | chancres |
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Origin of chancre
Borrowed from French chancre (“cancer”), from Latin cancer (“crab”). Cognate to canker and cancer.
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Questions about chancre
- What does chancre mean?
- Chancre means skin lesion, sometimes associated with certain contagious diseases such as syphilis.
- What is chancre in Tamil?
- Chancre in Tamil is கிரந்திபுண், வன்கிரந்தி. See Chancre meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use chancre in a sentence?
- At that point the caretaker said to me, "It's a chancre she's got." I didn't understand, so I looked at the nurse and saw that she had a bandage round her head just below the eyes.
- What part of speech is chancre?
- Chancre is a noun.
- How do you pronounce chancre?
- Chancre is pronounced /ˈʃæŋ.kɚ/.
- What is the plural of chancre?
- The plural of chancre is chancres.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: chancre (page history and authors); chancre (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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