common cold

1. 1.

   a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)

   “will they never find a cure for the common cold?”

   Synonymscold

   Broaderrespiratory diseasecommunicable disease

   Narrowerhead cold

   Partsrhinorrhea

Questions about common cold

What does common cold mean?

common cold means "a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)".

What is another word for common cold?

Close synonyms include cold. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common cold a common word?

common cold is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.