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covid-19

/ˈkəʊ.vɪd naɪnˈtiːn//ˈkoʊ.vɪd naɪnˈtin/

covid-19 is the alternative letter-case form of COVID-19.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: COVID-19

COVID-19

  1. COVID-19 (disease).
    • diagnosed with COVID-19
    • Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus.2020 January 11, “Coronavirus”, in World Health Organization
  2. (metonymically) SARS-CoV-2 (virus that causes the COVID-19 disease).
    • Most people infected with the COVID-19 virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment.2020 January 11, “Coronavirus”, in World Health Organization
    • As we enter the first months of 2021, increasing numbers of reports of variants of the COVID-19 virus mark a new development in the pandemic.2021 February 5, “Redoubling public health measures needed due to COVID-19 virus variants”, in World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2021
  3. The COVID-19 pandemic which began in early 2020, and ended sometime in the mid 2020s.
    • Many diabetics have been dying, especially during COVID-19.
    • The pandemic has helped cement a view of the human as collective, prosocial, and sharing a common bond between all people. This shared experience of living (and dying) during COVID-19 has proved a unifying force.2022, Paul Martin, Stevienna de Saille, Kirsty Liddiard, Warren Pearce, “Conclusion:Thinking about 'the Human' during COVID-19 Times”, in Stevienna de Saille, Paul Martin, editors, Being Human During...

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Covid-19

Covid-19

  1. Alternative letter-case form of COVID-19.
    • About 1.4 billion people traveled internationally last year, which is 99% of the number who did the same in 2019, the last full year before Covid-19 hit the world.2025 January 22, Lilit Marcus, “More than 1.4 billion people traveled internationally in 2024 as tourism returns to pre-pandemic highs”, in CNN

Synonyms of covid-19

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Forms of covid-19

alternative formCovid-19

Origin of covid-19

Borrowed from translingual COVID-19, an abbreviation of coronavirus disease + 19 from 2019, the year the virus was discovered. Coined by the World Health Organization on February 11, 2020. Intended to avoid stigma by not referring to a place, animal, career, or group of people.

Words formed from covid-19

Phrases with covid-19

Questions about covid-19

What does covid-19 mean?
Covid-19 means COVID-19 (disease).
What is covid-19 the alternative letter-case form of?
Covid-19 is the alternative letter-case form of COVID-19.
What part of speech is covid-19?
Covid-19 is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce covid-19?
Covid-19 is pronounced /ˈkoʊ.vɪd naɪnˈtin/ (US).

Words near covid-19 in the dictionary

  1. covid cuts
  2. Covid normal
  3. covid parties
  4. covid party
  5. COVID toes
  6. covid-19
  7. covid-19 parties
  8. covid-19 party
  9. covid-crazy
  10. COVID-friendly
  11. COVID-positive

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: covid-19 (page history and authors); COVID-19 (page history and authors); Covid-19 (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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