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SARS

SARS is the acronym of severe acute respiratory syndrome.

SARS is the initialism of Special Anti-Robbery Squad.

SARS is the initialism of South African Revenue Service.

Meaning of severe acute respiratory syndrome

Noun

severe acute respiratory syndrome (countable and uncountable, plural severe acute respiratory syndromes)

  1. A form of pneumonia resulting from infection by a coronavirus characterized by fever, myalgia, lethargy and coughing and which can be fatal.
    • (b) Severe acute respiratory syndromes, which are diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon...2014 July 31, Barack Obama, “Executive Order—Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases”, in https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/, Office of the Press Secretary, The White House
    Synonyms:
    SARS

Noun (1) capitalized: Sars

Sars (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of severe acute respiratory syndrome, also SARS.
    • The WHO’s response to Sars was considered a huge success. Fewer than 1,000 people worldwide died of the disease, despite it reaching a total of 26 countries.2020 April 10, Stephen Buranyi, “The WHO v coronavirus: why it can't handle the pandemic”, in The Guardian

Proper noun capitalized: Sars

Sars

  1. (plural) plural of Sar

Noun (2) capitalized: SARs

SARs

  1. (plural) plural of SAR

Words formed from SARS

Phrases with SARS

Questions about SARS

What is SARS the acronym of?
SARS is the acronym of severe acute respiratory syndrome.
What part of speech is SARS?
SARS can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near SARS in the dictionary

  1. Sarrs
  2. sarrusophone
  3. sarrusophones
  4. sarrusophonist
  5. sarrusophonists
  6. SARS
  7. SARS mask
  8. SARS masks
  9. SARS-CoV
  10. SARS-CoV-2
  11. sarsa

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Adapted from Wiktionary: SARS (page history and authors); Sars (page history and authors); SARs (page history and authors); severe acute respiratory syndrome (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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