COMMUNICABLE DISEASE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A disease that can be communicated from one person to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("communicable disease" is a kind of...):

disease (an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "communicable disease"):

contagion; contagious disease (any disease easily transmitted by contact)

infectious disease (a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact)

cold; common cold (a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs))