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influenzas

influenzas is the plural of influenza.

Meaning of influenza

Noun

influenza (countable and uncountable, plural influenzas or influenze)

  1. An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics.
    • In early 1919 the Board also issued a film, Dr Wise on Influenza, in which a character called 'Brown' spreads the disease by enacting poor behaviours.
    • This did address transport - by boarding a crowded omnibus, "Brown may be scattering germs throughout the carriage and giving influenza to a number of people".2020 April 8, Dr David Turner, “How railway staff were conduits and victims of a pandemic”, in Rail, page 32
    Synonyms:
    flu, grippe, grip

Questions about influenzas

What is influenzas the plural of?
Influenzas is the plural of influenza.

Words near influenzas in the dictionary

  1. influentials
  2. influents
  3. influenza
  4. influenzal
  5. influenzalike
  6. influenzas
  7. influenzavirus
  8. influenzavirus H1N1
  9. influenzaviruses
  10. influenzic
  11. influenzoid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: influenzas (page history and authors); influenza (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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