venereal disease

Questions about venereal disease

What does venereal disease mean?

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

What is another word for venereal disease?

Close synonyms include VD, 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 venereal disease a common word?

venereal disease 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.