swine flu

1. 1.

   an acute and highly contagious respiratory disease of swine caused by the orthomyxovirus thought to be the same virus that caused the 1918 influenza pandemic

   Synonymsswine influenza

   Broaderinfluenza

Questions about swine flu

What does swine flu mean?

swine flu means "an acute and highly contagious respiratory disease of swine caused by the orthomyxovirus thought to be the same virus that caused the 1918 influenza pandemic".

What is another word for swine flu?

Close synonyms include swine influenza. 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 swine flu a common word?

swine flu 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.