typhoid

American  

[tahy-foid] / ˈtaɪ fɔɪd /

noun

1. Also called typhoid fever.  an infectious, often fatal, febrile disease, usually of the summer months, characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration, caused by the typhoid bacillus, which is usually introduced with food or drink.

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adjective

1. resembling typhus; typhous.

2. typhoidal.

typhoid British  

/ ˈtaɪfɔɪd /

adjective

1. resembling typhus

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noun

1. short for typhoid fever

Other Word Forms

• antityphoid adjective
• pretyphoid adjective

Etymology

Origin of typhoid

First recorded in 1790–1800; typh(us) + -oid

Example Sentences

Suddenly Parton was a single mother of two daughters, mourning the deaths of her husband from typhoid fever and their first daughter, who died of brain fever.

From The Wall Street Journal

I’d read in the newspapers about cholera, typhoid, and all sorts of other plagues that afflicted our city.

From Literature

“It contributes to ill health, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, water-related diseases, and it contributes to conflicts over water.”

From Los Angeles Times

Visits to the front, rousing of troops, evading rampant typhoid, enigmatic encounters with notable leaders like Republican Chiang Kai-shek and Communist Zhou Enlai.

From Salon

When Willie Lincoln, the third son of President Lincoln, died at age 11 of typhoid fever, he was interred in a mausoleum in Oak Hill Cemetery.

From Los Angeles Times