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GRIPPE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does grippe mean?
• GRIPPE (noun)
The noun GRIPPE has 1 sense:
1. an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease
Familiarity information: GRIPPE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("grippe" is a kind of...):
contagion; contagious disease (any disease easily transmitted by contact)
respiratory disease; respiratory disorder; respiratory illness (a disease affecting the respiratory system)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grippe"):
Asian influenza; Asiatic flu (influenza caused by the Asian virus that was first isolated in 1957)
swine flu; swine influenza (an acute and highly contagious respiratory disease of swine caused by the orthomyxovirus thought to be the same virus that caused the 1918 influenza pandemic)
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