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covit

covit is the alternative form of covid.

Meaning of covid

Noun

covid (plural covids)

  1. (archaic) A cubit.
    • In weights and measures one hundred catties were equivalent to one picul, or 133½ English pounds; in cloth or long measure ten “poontas” to one covid, and two covids to thirty-six inches English.1908, William Babcock Weeden, Early Oriental Commerce in Providence
  2. (archaic) A chi.
    • A measure of length, the Chinese cubit, by Europeans called covid.1815, A dictionary of the Chinese language, in three parts

Forms of covit

pluralcovits

Questions about covit

What is covit the alternative form of?
Covit is the alternative form of covid.

Words near covit in the dictionary

  1. covisitors
  2. covisualization
  3. covisualizations
  4. covisualize
  5. covisualized
  6. covit
  7. covitrification
  8. covitrifications
  9. covits
  10. covolatilities
  11. covolatility

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Adapted from Wiktionary: covit (page history and authors); covid (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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