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social disease

social disease noun: a sexually transmitted disease.

Noun

social disease (plural social diseases)

  1. (dated) A sexually transmitted disease
    • Cooperating in the drive against social disease, all of the 240 co-educational students of Wagner College, Staten Island, a non-sectarian school under the sponsorship of the United Lutheran Synod of New York, started yesterday to take the Wassermann test.1938, “240 Students Submit to Wassermann Test”, in New York Times

Forms of social disease

pluralsocial diseases

Questions about social disease

What does social disease mean?
Social disease means a sexually transmitted disease.
What part of speech is social disease?
Social disease is a noun.
What is the plural of social disease?
The plural of social disease is social diseases.

Words near social disease in the dictionary

  1. social democracy
  2. social democrat
  3. social democratic
  4. Social Democratic Party
  5. social democrats
  6. social disease
  7. social distance
  8. social distanced
  9. social distances
  10. social distancing
  11. social drinker

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