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long covid

Syllables: long CO·VIDUK/ˌlɒŋ ˈkəʊvɪd//ˌlɔŋ ˈkoʊvɪd/

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

Noun (1) capitalized: long COVID

long COVID (uncountable)

  1. Long-term sequelae or symptoms (such as brain fog, extreme fatigue, or shortness of breath) following a COVID-19 infection, which persist after the SARS-CoV-2 virus is no longer active.
    • In Italy this is not much discussed for now. But the long covid is here, too, of course. I think drs [doctors] will slowly come to understand it, as they see patients fail to recover properly.2020 May 15, Elisa Perego (@elisaperego78), Twitter, archived from the original on 15 May 2020
    • The #LongCovid #COVID19 is starting to be addressed on major newspapers in Italy 🇮🇹 too:[…][2020 May 21, Elisa Perego (@elisaperego78), Twitter, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2022
  2. (broadly, informal) Long-term negative economic effects persisting after the COVID pandemic.
    • [See title.]2021, Chenyan Lyu, Tooraj Jamasb, Jan Peter Georg Spanholtz, The Long Covid of Energy Markets and Prices

Noun (2) capitalized: long Covid

long Covid (uncountable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of long COVID.
    • There is also absolutely no doubt of the severity of the consequences of long Covid.2020 September 8, Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, “Oral Evidence: Social Care: Funding and Workforce, HC 206”, in UK Parliament: Committees (Health and Social Care Select...

Synonyms of long covid

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Forms of long covid

alternative formlong covid
alternative formlong Covid

Origin of long covid

Blend of long-term + COVID, coined by Elisa Perego, an archaeologist working in London and sufferer of the condition who used the term in tweets on the online social networking service Twitter as a hashtag and in running text in May 2020 (see the quotations), leading to its widespread use.

Words that rhyme with long covid

Questions about long covid

What does long covid mean?
Long covid means long-term sequelae or symptoms (such as brain fog, extreme fatigue, or shortness of breath) following a COVID-19 infection, which persist after the SARS-CoV-2 virus is no longer active.
What is long covid the alternative letter-case form of?
Long covid is the alternative letter-case form of long COVID.
What part of speech is long covid?
Long covid is a noun.
How do you pronounce long covid?
Long covid is pronounced /ˌlɒŋ ˈkəʊvɪd/ (UK).

Words near long covid in the dictionary

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  2. long cons
  3. long corner
  4. long corners
  5. Long County
  6. long covid
  7. Long Crendon
  8. Long Dick Creek
  9. long distancer
  10. long distancers
  11. long division

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