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spanish influenza

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.48 in modern English

Syllables
span-ish in-fluen-za
IPA
33
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A form of influenza that spread to nearly every part of the world in a pandemic between 1918 and 1920, killing from 20 to 100 million people.

Uncountable

noun

Alternative letter-case form of Spanish influenza.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

Named after Spain, which reported on the spread of disease as a neutral state while most other countries fighting World War I impose censorship, leading to a mistaken impression that it was concentrated in Spain.

Usage

Inflected Forms

Spanish flu (alternative)

Phrases

heliotrope cyanosis

Frequently Paired Words

heliotrope cyanosis H1N1 swine flu bird flu

Synonyms

purulent bronchitis

Questions

What does spanish influenza mean?
A form of influenza that spread to nearly every part of the world in a pandemic between 1918 and 1920, killing from 20 to 100 million people.
Where does spanish influenza come from?
Named after Spain, which reported on the spread of disease as a neutral state while most other countries fighting World War I impose censorship, leading to a mistaken impression that it was concentrated in Spain.

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