vd

Other forms of vd

plural

vds·

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 vd

What does vd mean?

vd means "a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact".

How many syllables are in vd?

vd has 1 syllable: vd.

What is another word for vd?

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

vd 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.