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  • STD
    STD
    abbreviation
    sexually transmitted disease: any disease characteristically transmitted by sexual contact, as gonorrhea, syphilis, genital herpes, and chlamydia.
  • std.
    std.
    abbreviation
    standard.
  • S.T.D.
    S.T.D.
    abbreviation
    Doctor of Sacred Theology.
  • std
    std
    abbreviation
    standard
Synonyms

STD

1 American  

abbreviation

  1. sexually transmitted disease: any disease characteristically transmitted by sexual contact, as gonorrhea, syphilis, genital herpes, and chlamydia.


std. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. standard.


S.T.D. 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. Doctor of Sacred Theology.


STD 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. subscriber trunk dialling

  2. subscriber toll dialling

  3. sexually transmitted disease

  4. Doctor of Sacred Theology

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

std 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. standard

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

STD Scientific  
  1. Abbreviation of sexually transmitted disease


STD Cultural  

Etymology

Origin of STD1

First recorded in 1970–75

Origin of S.T.D.3

From New Latin Sacrae Theologiae Doctor

Example Sentences

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In a statement, Dr. Jonathan Mermin, the director of CDC's National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention said he saw a “glimmer of hope amidst millions of STIs.”

From Salon Jan. 17, 2025

Stephanie Pang, a senior director with the coalition of STD directors, said that given the critical role of this drug and the severe access concerns, she thinks a stockpile is necessary.

From Salon Mar. 6, 2024

By 2002, cases began rising again, with men who have sex with other men being disproportionately affected, though the STD is spreading among several demographics.

From Seattle Times Nov. 7, 2023

That could change as more research is done, said Mermin, who oversees the CDC’s STD efforts.

From Washington Times Oct. 2, 2023

Zenilman, likewise, wasn’t saying that the STD clinics in Baltimore were shut down.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

This included 2,402 patients for birth control and S.T.D. testing, 815 abortion patients and 724 patients for gender-affirming hormone therapy.

From New York Times Jan. 7, 2022

“Our most effective tool for control is timely diagnosis and treatment,” said Dr. Gail Bolan, director of the Division of S.T.D.

From New York Times Oct. 28, 2020

The center, in Terre Haute, Indiana, is one of more than twenty-five hundred such C.P.C.s in the U.S.—Christian organizations that provide services including free pregnancy testing, low-cost S.T.D. testing, parenting classes, and ultrasounds.

From The New Yorker Nov. 11, 2019

“There are tools available to prevent every case of congenital syphilis,” Gail Bolan, director of the C.D.C.’s Division of S.T.D.

From New York Times Oct. 8, 2019

Wesleyan conferred degree of LL.D. and Harvard that of LL.D. and S.T.D. all before he was fifty years of age.

From Jukes-Edwards A Study in Education and Heredity by Winship, A. E.

Questions on sample sizes, analysis methods, std deviations, etc.

From New York Times Nov. 10, 2017

If you are taking std deduction, that loss is not made up by increase in std deduction.

From New York Times Nov. 6, 2017

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