std

Other forms of std

plural

stds·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about std

What does std mean?

std means "a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in std?

std has 1 syllable: std.

What is another word for std?

Close synonyms include venereal disease, VD, venereal infection, social disease, Cupid's itch. 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 std a common word?

std is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.