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cold sores

cold sores is the plural of cold sore.

Meaning of cold sore

Noun

cold sore (plural cold sores)

  1. A small bump (namely a vesicle) on the lips resulting from infection by herpes simplex viruses (mostly HHV1 but also HHV2).
    Synonyms:
    fever blister, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes simplex 1, herpes labialis

Questions about cold sores

What is cold sores the plural of?
Cold sores is the plural of cold sore.

Words near cold sores in the dictionary

  1. cold smoking
  2. cold snap
  3. cold snaps
  4. cold sober
  5. cold sore
  6. cold sores
  7. cold spell
  8. cold spells
  9. cold spot
  10. cold spots
  11. Cold Spring

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cold sores (page history and authors); cold sore (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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