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typhoid - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Adjective

typhoid (not comparable)

• Characterised by or relating to typhus.

Noun

typhoid (countable and uncountable, plural typhoids)

• (pathology) Ellipsis of typhoid fever.
  • ✤ * Typhoid may not worry people as it once did, but it still affects more than 20 million people a year around the world.*¹

Etymology

From typhus +‎ -oid.²

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtaɪ.fɔɪd/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊

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Footnotes

1. 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 378: ↩

2. “typhoid, adj. and n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. ↩

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