"covid" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkoʊvɪd/ [General-American], /ˈkʌvɪd/ [General-American], /ˈkəʊvɪd/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈkɒvɪd/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈkəʊvəd/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈkɐʉvəd/ [General-Australian, New-Zealand] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-covid.wav [Southern-England]
Rhymes: -əʊvɪd Etymology: From COVID-19. Etymology templates: {{l|en|COVID-19}} COVID-19 Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} covid (uncountable)
  1. (colloquial) Short for COVID-19, the disease caused by Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, uncountable Alternative form of: COVID-19 (extra: the disease caused by Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2) Categories (topical): Coronavirus Derived forms: covid-19 party, covid-crazy, covid cut, covidiocy, covidiot, covid party, covid-safe, covid-wise, long covid Translations (Translations): covid [feminine, masculine] (Catalan), corona [common-gender] (Dutch), covid [common-gender] (Dutch), korona (Finnish), covid [feminine, masculine] (French), ಕೋವಿಡ್ (kōviḍ) (Kannada), ಕೊರೋನಾ (korōnā) (Kannada), kowheori (Maori), ко́ви́д (kóvíd) [masculine] (Russian), covid [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), โควิด (koo-wìt) (Thai)
    Sense id: en-covid-en-noun-MXPV10Ri Disambiguation of Coronavirus: 94 4 2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 65 18 17 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 76 13 11
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: covids [plural]
Etymology: From Portuguese covado (“cubit”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|pt|covado||cubit}} Portuguese covado (“cubit”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} covid (plural covids)
  1. (archaic, units of measure) A cubit. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-covid-en-noun-ximCX9LQ Topics: units-of-measure
  2. (archaic, units of measure) A chi. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-covid-en-noun-PGO6YtZm Topics: units-of-measure
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: covado
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.