covid
/ˈkoʊvɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.86 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Ellipsis of COVID-19, the disease caused by Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2.
Colloquial; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "COVID is tough, but Pennsylvanians are tougher. Together we can make a difference, slow the spread of the virus, and save lives."
- "Every year on 31 May we celebrate World No Tobacco Day to draw global attention to the tobacco epidemic and the preventable death and disease it causes. This year, the national theme is COVID is no joke, it gets worse with smoke."
- "For quotations using this term, see Citations:COVID."
- "Instead I invite you to use the disruption of covid as a chance to disrupt your busyness. That as you navigate your journey through this crisis, you also guide your life onto a path of more colour, more impact and more joy."
- "We all have such grand plans, when covid is over. Some of us want to get back to packed concert halls, while others want to relax comfortably at our favorite restaurants. […] It can also bring to mind other painful waiting periods — so vividly, in fact, that in the past few days it’s become a meme to compare the phrase “once covid is over” to other events that might never arrive."
- "In weights and measures one hundred catties were equivalent to one picul, or 133½ English pounds; in cloth or long measure ten “poontas” to one covid, and two covids to thirty-six inches English."
Etymology
From COVID-19.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkoʊvɪd/
- British English: /ˈkəʊvɪd/