measles
/ˈmizəlz/
Frequency: 3.33 in modern English
Meaning
noun
An acute and highly contagious disease which often afflicts children caused by the virus Measles morbillivirus and causing red rashes, fever, runny nose, coughing, and red eyes.
Uncountable
noun
An acute and highly contagious disease which often afflicts children caused by the virus Measles morbillivirus and causing red rashes, fever, runny nose, coughing, and red eyes.
Uncountable
noun
Synonym of cysticercosis: A disease of livestock or meat caused by the presence of tapeworm larvae.
Uncountable
noun
Synonym of cysticercosis: A disease of livestock or meat caused by the presence of tapeworm larvae.
Uncountable
noun
A discreet assassination made to look like death from natural causes.
American usage; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Maybe it's the 'measles. They say they're going around the neighborhood."
- "Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it."
- "In the camps a case of measles is defined as a generalized rash of three or more days duration, with a fever of at least 38.8°C.., and any one of the following: cough, coryza or conjunctivitis."
- "Although the MMR vaccine was introduced in 1988, Britain offered separate measles injections until 1999."
- "Others take a fether, and dippe it in the saide water, and therwith they annoynte all the Measells of the Face when they are come forth."
- "The Swyne dyed of the Measils."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmizəlz/
- British English: /ˈmiːzəlz/
Usage
- Uncountable
- Obsolete
- American usage