noun
Meaning 1
A disease spread by contact.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
contagion
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Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
The spread or transmission of such a disease.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: infection
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The spread of anything likened to a contagious disease.
The passing on of manners or behaviour through a closed community or household.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
The spread of anything likened to a contagious disease.
The spread of (initially small) shocks, which initially affect only a few financial institutions or a particular region of an economy, to other financial sectors and other countries whose economies were previously healthy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable
Topics: business, finance
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A recession or crisis developed in such manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: business, finance
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a contagion of mirth
- the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: infection
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: communication
noun
Meaning 7
an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: infection, transmission
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: incident
noun
Meaning 8
any disease easily transmitted by contact
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: contagious disease
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: communicable disease
Narrower terms: influenza, flu, grippe, measles, rubeola, morbilli, diphtheria, scarlet fever, scarlatina, pox, Vincent's angina, Vincent's infection, trench mouth, venereal disease, VD, venereal infection, social disease, Cupid's itch, Cupid's disease, Venus's curse, dose, sexually transmitted disease, STD
History
Etymology
From Middle English (late 14th century), from Old French, from Latin contāgiō (“a touching, contact, contagion”) related to contingō (“touch closely”).
Across languages
Translations
61 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: заразна болест (zarazna bolest) — disease spread by contact
- Dutch: besmettelijke ziekte — disease spread by contact
- Finnish: tartuntatauti — disease spread by contact
- Finnish: tarttuva tauti — disease spread by contact
- French: contagion — disease spread by contact
- German: ansteckende Krankheit — disease spread by contact
- Irish: galar tógálach — disease spread by contact
- Irish: galar gabhálach — disease spread by contact
- Italian: contagio — disease spread by contact
- Māori: mate rere — disease spread by contact
- Māori: mate mauhoro — disease spread by contact
- Navajo: naałniih — disease spread by contact
- Piedmontese: contagi — disease spread by contact
- Tamil: தொற்று (toṟṟu) — disease spread by contact
- Tamil: தொற்றுநோய் (toṟṟunōy) — disease spread by contact
- Unami: mëshihweokàn — disease spread by contact
- Belarusian: інфе́кцыя (infjékcyja) — transmission of a contagious disease
- Belarusian: заражэ́нне (zaražénnje) — transmission of a contagious disease
- Belarusian: інфэ́кцыя (infékcyja) — transmission of a contagious disease
- Belarusian: зара́за (zaráza) — transmission of a contagious disease
- Bulgarian: инфе́кция (infékcija) — transmission of a contagious disease
- Bulgarian: зара́зяване (zarázjavane) — transmission of a contagious disease
- Catalan: contagi — transmission of a contagious disease
- Catalan: contagió — transmission of a contagious disease
- Chinese Cantonese: 傳染 /传染 (cyun4 jim5) — transmission of a contagious disease
- Chinese Mandarin: 傳染 /传染 (chuánrǎn) — transmission of a contagious disease
- Czech: nákaza — transmission of a contagious disease
- Dutch: besmetting — transmission of a contagious disease
- Estonian: nakkus — transmission of a contagious disease
- Finnish: tartunta — transmission of a contagious disease
- Finnish: tarttuminen — transmission of a contagious disease
- French: contagion — transmission of a contagious disease
- Galician: contaxio — transmission of a contagious disease
- German: Ansteckung — transmission of a contagious disease
- Greek: μεταδοτική ασθένεια (metadotikí asthéneia) — transmission of a contagious disease
- Hindi: छूत (chūt) — transmission of a contagious disease
- Hungarian: ragály — transmission of a contagious disease
- Hungarian: fertőzés — transmission of a contagious disease
- Ido: kontagio — transmission of a contagious disease
- Irish: tógáil — transmission of a contagious disease
- Italian: contagio — transmission of a contagious disease
- Japanese: 伝染 (densen) — transmission of a contagious disease
- Korean: 전염 (jeonyeom) — transmission of a contagious disease
- Latin: contāgiō — transmission of a contagious disease
- Occitan: contagion — transmission of a contagious disease
- Polish: zarażenie — transmission of a contagious disease
- Portuguese: contágio — transmission of a contagious disease
- Romanian: contagiune — transmission of a contagious disease
- Russian: инфе́кция (infékcija) — transmission of a contagious disease
- Russian: зара́зная боле́знь (zaráznaja boléznʹ) — transmission of a contagious disease
- Russian: зара́за (zaráza) — transmission of a contagious disease
- Slovak: nákaza — transmission of a contagious disease
- Spanish: contagio — transmission of a contagious disease
- Tagalog: lalin — transmission of a contagious disease
- Tamil: தொற்று (toṟṟu) — transmission of a contagious disease
- Turkish: salgın — transmission of a contagious disease
- Ukrainian: інфе́кція (infékcija) — transmission of a contagious disease
- Ukrainian: зара́за (zaráza) — transmission of a contagious disease
- Urdu: چُھوت (chūt) — transmission of a contagious disease
- Finnish: leviäminen — spread of anything harmful
- Finnish: leviäminen — finance: situation in which a shock spreads