"STD" meaning in English

See STD in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Head templates: {{head|en|adjective}} STD
  1. Alternative form of std (“standard”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: std (extra: standard)
    Sense id: en-STD-en-adj-HILi7gn0

Noun

Forms: STDs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} STD (countable and uncountable, plural STDs)
  1. (pathology) Initialism of sexually transmitted disease. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: sexually transmitted disease Categories (topical): Diseases, Sexually transmitted diseases Synonyms: STI Translations (sexually transmitted disease — see also sexually transmitted disease): MTS [feminine] (Catalan), soa (Dutch), MST [feminine] (French), IST [feminine] (French), ΣΜΝ (SMN) (Greek), PMS (Indonesian), aaʼadiniih (Navajo), DST [feminine] (Portuguese), BTS (Romanian), ITS (Romanian), ЗППП (ZPPP) [neuter] (Russian), ETS [feminine] (Spanish), ITS [feminine] (Spanish), CYBH (Turkish), ЗПСШ (ZPSŠ) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-STD-en-noun-jC5WO4-9 Disambiguation of Sexually transmitted diseases: 1 68 9 9 13 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 30 21 1 29 20 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 1 36 15 1 34 12 Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences Disambiguation of 'sexually transmitted disease — see also sexually transmitted disease': 74 7 1 18
  2. (telephony) Initialism of subscriber trunk dialling or subscriber toll dialing. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: subscriber trunk dialling or subscriber toll dialing Categories (topical): Telephony
    Sense id: en-STD-en-noun-qhX0hi~p Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 30 21 1 29 20 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 1 36 15 1 34 12 Topics: communications, electrical-engineering, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, telecommunications, telephony
  3. Initialism of short-term disability. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: short-term disability
    Sense id: en-STD-en-noun-xouSfxvp
  4. (rare, sometimes humorous) Initialism of save the date. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, humorous, initialism, rare, sometimes, uncountable Alternative form of: save the date
    Sense id: en-STD-en-noun-79VcBeOz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 30 21 1 29 20 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 1 36 15 1 34 12
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: VD [pathology, medicine, sciences], STI

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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