hay fever

1. 1.

   a seasonal rhinitis resulting from an allergic reaction to pollen

   Synonymspollinosis

   Broaderallergic rhinitis

Questions about hay fever

What does hay fever mean?

hay fever means "a seasonal rhinitis resulting from an allergic reaction to pollen".

What is another word for hay fever?

Close synonyms include pollinosis. 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 hay fever a common word?

hay fever is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.