cot death

Questions about cot death

What is another word for cot death?

It depends which cot death you mean. In the sense “sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep”, the synonyms are sudden infant death syndrome, SIDS, infant death, crib death. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of cot death?

WordNet records no antonym for cot death. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for cot death come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of cot death

• Full entry for cot deathAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for cot deathWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.