noun
a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact
• Syn:
↑VD, ↑venereal infection, ↑social disease, ↑Cupid's itch, ↑Cupid's disease, ↑Venus's curse, ↑dose, ↑sexually transmitted disease, ↑STD
• Hypernyms: ↑contagious disease, ↑contagion
• Hyponyms:
↑genital herpes, ↑herpes genitalis, ↑gonorrhea, ↑gonorrhoea, ↑clap, ↑granuloma inguinale, ↑granuloma venereum, ↑syphilis, ↑syph, ↑pox, ↑lues venerea, ↑lues, ↑lymphogranuloma venereum, ↑LGV, ↑lymphopathia venereum, ↑chlamydia
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a disease that is caught by having sex with an infected person
Useful english dictionary. 2012.