Word info

covid

Noun

Meaning

COVID (uncountable)

Clipping of COVID-19.

Covid (uncountable)

Ellipsis of COVID-19.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:COVID.


covid (uncountable)

(colloquial) Short for COVID-19, the disease caused by Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2.

(archaic, units of measure) A cubit.

(archaic, units of measure) A chi.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Phrases with the word

Examples

I urge [the] Congress to move promptly on the COVID funding bill. This virus knows no borders; we must continue to save lives here at home and around the world. Joe Biden

Rising COVID numbers are worrying. Vaccination must pick up pace to avoid serious outcomes in the next wave. Rahul Gandhi

Day 6 of Covid. Now my wife and kids have it too. All of us vaxxed; wife and I both boosted not long ago. Everybody we know who has omicron was vaxxed; most also boosted. So I gotta ask: what's the point of vaccine passports now? Security theater? Prepping social credit system? Rod Dreher

Fauci says 'we need to keep the politics out of' investigating COVID origins. Anthony Fauci

So sorry, Your Majesty, but I have had my first Covid vaccination for wholly selfish reasons. I did not do it for the good of others but for my own convenience. And I will have my second for the same purpose. Peter Hitchens

I repeat, Mr. Speaker, that I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party, and that no COVID rules were broken. Boris Johnson

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