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GONORRHOEA

Dictionary entry overview: What does gonorrhoea mean?

• GONORRHOEA (noun)
The noun GONORRHOEA has 1 sense:

1. a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra

Familiarity information: GONORRHOEA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GONORRHOEA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

gonorrhea; gonorrhoea; clap

Hypernyms ("gonorrhoea" is a kind of...):

Cupid's disease; Cupid's itch; dose; sexually transmitted disease; social disease; VD; venereal disease; venereal infection; Venus's curse (a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact)

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