common cold
common cold noun: a very common, mild viral infection of the nose and throat, whose symptoms typically include sneezing, sniffling, a running or blocked nose, a sore throat, coughing and a headache.
Noun
common cold (plural common colds)
- A very common, mild viral infection of the nose and throat, whose symptoms typically include sneezing, sniffling, a running or blocked nose, a sore throat, coughing and a headache.
- So he went to the hospital and got checked. Doctors determined it was a common cold, not the new coronavirus, he says, and he returned home. Then a week ago, he says, five officers showed up at his house in Xishui County, a two hour drive from Wuhan. They wore masks and wielded blue, gun-shaped...2020 January 31, Dake Kang, “The shunned: People from virus-hit city tracked, quarantined”, in AP News, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2022
common cold meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
common cold in Hindi
- mild infection
- सर्दी sardī, ज़ुकाम zukām, जुकाम jukām, प्रतिश्याय pratiśyāy
common cold in Tamil
- mild infection
- சளி caḷi
common cold in Marathi
- mild infection
- सर्दी sardī
common cold in Urdu
- the common cold, flu
- سردی sardī
More languagesFewer languages
- common cold in Bengali
- সর্দি śordi
- common cold in Telugu
- పడిశము paḍiśamu
- common cold in Malayalam
- ജലദോഷം jaladōṣaṁ
- common cold in Gujarati
- શરદી śardī
- common cold in Sanskrit
- प्रतिश्याय pratiśyāya
- common cold in Nepali
- रुगा rugā
- common cold in Arabic
- زُكَام zukām
- common cold in Indonesian
- selesma, batuk pilek
- common cold in Thai
- หวัด wàt
- common cold in Vietnamese
- bệnh cảm lạnh
Synonyms of common cold
Forms of common cold
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Questions about common cold
- What does common cold mean?
- Common cold means a very common, mild viral infection of the nose and throat, whose symptoms typically include sneezing, sniffling, a running or blocked nose, a sore throat, coughing and a headache.
- What is common cold in Hindi?
- Common cold in Hindi is सर्दी (sardī), ज़ुकाम (zukām), जुकाम (jukām). See Common cold meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is common cold?
- Common cold is a noun.
- What is the plural of common cold?
- The plural of common cold is common colds.
Words near common cold in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: common cold (page history and authors); سردی (Urdu) (page history and authors); সর্দি (Bengali) (page history and authors); పడిశము (Telugu) (page history and authors); શરદી (Gujarati) (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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