HEAD COLD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does head cold mean? 

• HEAD COLD (noun)
  The noun HEAD COLD has 1 sense:

1. a common cold affecting the nasal passages and resulting in congestion and sneezing and headache

  Familiarity information: HEAD COLD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEAD COLD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A common cold affecting the nasal passages and resulting in congestion and sneezing and headache

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("head cold" is a kind of...):

cold; common cold (a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs))