common cold
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1.1
- noun
- /ˈkɑːmən koʊld/
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resfriado
- The common cold is often accompanied by symptoms like sneezing and a runny nose.
- cure for the common cold
You know, anything from from the common cold to Ebola, right?
- You know, anything from from the common cold to Ebola, right?
- Who knows what we may be able to together conquer the common cold that's eluded scientists for a long time.
- And remember that the first sign of infection is still the signs of a common cold, which may be with or without sore throat.
- Viral infections include any time you'd have the common cold, the flu, chicken pox, ear infections, measles and COVID.
- I was wondering whether you felt that the work you're doing here could eventually be applicable to a cure for the common cold.
- So for someone like her, it will not be just like a common cold.
- The Martians get defeated not by our guns, but but by the they get infected with a common cold, right?
- So if the mild version is ascendant, then does that mean ultimately it will think of it as the common cold, yes, or the flu?
- I don't know if the Spanish flu or this is a common cold, but let's just, you know, keep on trucking on it for it.
Examples
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Nor did it work on the common cold.
Fiction book (1992) -
The flu is more serious than the common cold, so do everything you can to prevent it.
Blog text (32) -
In this place, we live in fear of the common cold.
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"The first symptoms are those of a common cold."
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No one in my family has ever used the ER for a common cold.
Blog text (33) -
Samuel went to his doctor complaining of common cold symptoms.
Academic text (2008) -
It was reported today that a cure for the common cold is very close.
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The oldest age group, children in the eighth grade, suffered most often from the common cold at the time of examination.
Academic text (1998) -
We know that most people recover (for example) from the common cold without any treatment.
Blog text (14) -
What can a person do to avoid contracting the common cold or pneumonia?
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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1.0
A common virus infection of the nose and throat
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1.8
A mild viral sickness that makes your nose stuffy, causes sneezing, and may give you a headache
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6.3
Swelling and irritation of the area behind the nose and above the throat that causes cold symptoms
How Severe
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a mild viral infection' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'cold' (an illness) with 'common' (frequently occurring or typical); the adjective simply specifies the type of cold. This is a straightforward compositional noun phrase pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
The noun common cold may come from the simple idea that the illness is both common, very usual, and linked to cold weather. Long ago people noticed runny noses and sneezing more in winter and thought cold air made you 'sick', so they called these everyday sniffles the cold. That's why common cold now means a mild, ordinary illness of the nose and throat.