Phrase guide

sexually transmitted disease

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Any of various diseases that are usually contracted through sexual contact, with or without symptoms.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: STI, sexually transmitted infection, VD, venereal disease, gift that keeps on giving

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: infectious disease, infection, disease, disorder, illness, condition

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noun

Meaning 2

a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: venereal disease, VD, venereal infection, social disease, Cupid's itch, Cupid's disease, Venus's curse, dose, STD

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: contagious disease, contagion

Narrower terms: genital herpes, herpes genitalis, gonorrhea, gonorrhoea, clap, granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum, syphilis, syph, pox, lues venerea, lues, lymphogranuloma venereum, LGV, lymphopathia venereum, chlamydia

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Etymology

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Across languages

Translations

88 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: دَاء مَنْقُول جِنْسِيًّا (dāʔ manqūl jinsiyyan) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Armenian: վեներական հիվանդություն (venerakan hivandutʻyun) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Azerbaijani: zöhrəvi xəstəlik — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Azerbaijani: cinsi yolla keçən xəstəlik — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Burmese: ကာလသားရောဂါ (kala.sa:rau:ga) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Burmese: လူပျိုနာ (lu-pyuina) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Catalan: malaltia de transmissió sexual — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Chinese Mandarin: 性病 (xìngbìng) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Chinese Mandarin: 花柳病 (huāliǔbíng) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Czech: pohlavně přenosná choroba — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Czech: pohlavní choroba — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Danish: seksuelt overført sygdom — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Danish: kønssygdom — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Dutch: seksueel overdraagbare aandoening — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Dutch: geslachtsziekte — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Esperanto: seksume transdonebla malsano — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Esperanto: Esperanto: venerea malsano — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Faroese: kynssjúka — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Finnish: sukupuolitauti — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • French: maladie sexuellement transmissible — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • French: maladie vénérienne — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • German: Geschlechtskrankheit — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • German: sexuell übertragbare Krankheit — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Greek: σεξουαλικά μεταδιδόμενο νόσημα (sexoualiká metadidómeno nósima) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Greek: αφροδίσιο νόσημα (afrodísio nósima) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Greenlandic: kinguaassiuutitigut nappaat — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Greenlandic: nappaatipiluk — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Hebrew: מַחֲלַת מִין (maẖlát min) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Hindi: रतिरोग (ratirog) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Hungarian: nemi úton terjedő betegség — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Icelandic: kynsjúkdómur — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Icelandic: samræðissjúkdómur — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Indonesian: penyakit menular seksual — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Irish: galar gnéas-tarchurtha — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Italian: malattia sessualmente trasmissibile — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Italian: malattia venerea — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Japanese: 性感染症 (seikansenshō) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Japanese: STD (esu-tī-dī) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Japanese: 性行為感染症 (seikōi-kansenshō) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Japanese: 性病 (seibyō) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Japanese: 花柳病 (karyūbyō) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Kazakh: жыныс қатынасынан жұғатын ауру (jynys qatynasynan jūğatyn auru) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Korean: 성병 (seongbyeong) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Korean: 화류병 (hwaryubyeong) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Lithuanian: lytiškai plintanti liga — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Lithuanian: lytiniu keliu plintanti liga — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Lithuanian: venerinė liga — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Māori: mate paipai — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Māori: pakiwhara — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Māori: paipai — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Marathi: समागमाव्दारे पसरणारा रोग (samāgmāvdāre pasarṇārā rog) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Navajo: aaʼadiniih — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Norman: sale maladie — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kjønnssykdom — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kjønnssjukdom — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Plautdietsch: Wanierenkrankheit — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Polish: choroba przenoszona drogą płciową — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Polish: choroba weneryczna — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Portuguese: doença sexualmente transmitida — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Portuguese: doença venérea — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Romanian: boală transmisă sexual — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Romanian: boală contractată sexual — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Russian: заболева́ние, передаю́щееся половы́м путём (zabolevánije, peredajúščejesja polovým putjóm) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Russian: венерическая боле́знь (veneričeskaja boléznʹ) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Russian: венери́ческое заболева́ние (veneríčeskoje zabolevánije) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Scottish Gaelic: galar-drùisealachd — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Spanish: infección de transmisión sexual — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Spanish: enfermedad de transmisión sexual — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Swahili: maradhi ya zinaa — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Swedish: könssjukdom — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Swedish: sexuellt överförbar sjukdom — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Swedish: venerisk sjukdom — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Swedish: flugor i trumpeten — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Telugu: సుఖవ్యాధి (sukhavyādhi) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Telugu: సుఖరోగము (sukharōgamu) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Thai: โรคติดต่อทางเพศสัมพันธ์ (rôhk dtìt dtòr taang pâyt săm-pan) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Thai: โรคส่งผ่านทางเพศสัมพันธ์ (rôhk sòng pàan taang pâyt săm-pan) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Thai: กามโรค (gaam-má-rôok) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Tok Pisin: seksueli transmitet disis — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Tok Pisin: sik bilong koap — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Turkish: cinsel yolla bulaşan hastalık — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Turkish: zührevi hastalık — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Ukrainian: захво́рювання, що передає́ться стате́вим шля́хом (zaxvórjuvannja, ščo peredajétʹsja statévym šljáxom) — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Vietnamese: bệnh lây truyền qua đường tình dục — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Vietnamese: bệnh hoa liễu — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Vietnamese: nhiễm trùng lây qua đường tình dục — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Welsh: clefyd cysylltiad rhywiol — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD
  • Welsh: clefyd gwenerol — disease contracted through sexual contact — see also venereal disease, STD