SCARLET FEVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scarlet fever mean? 

• SCARLET FEVER (noun)
  The noun SCARLET FEVER has 1 sense:

1. an acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash

  Familiarity information: SCARLET FEVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCARLET FEVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

scarlatina; scarlet fever

Hypernyms ("scarlet fever" is a kind of...):

contagion; contagious disease (any disease easily transmitted by contact)

 Context examples 

I advise you to be off as soon as you can, for scarlet fever is no joke, miss.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Elizabeth had caught the scarlet fever; her illness was severe, and she was in the greatest danger.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Presence of cold agglutinins may be indicative of mycoplasmal pneumonia, mononucleosis, mumps, measles, scarlet fever, some parasitic infections, cirrhosis of the liver, and some types of hemolytic anemia.

(Cold Agglutinin, NCI Thesaurus)

I shall never forget his flying Henry's kite for him that very windy day last Easter—and ever since his particular kindness last September twelvemonth in writing that note, at twelve o'clock at night, on purpose to assure me that there was no scarlet fever at Cobham, I have been convinced there could not be a more feeling heart nor a better man in existence.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

You've had the scarlet fever, haven't you?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The good soul was wide awake in a minute, and took the lead at once, assuring that there was no need to worry; every one had scarlet fever, and if rightly treated, nobody died, all of which Jo believed, and felt much relieved as they went up to call Meg.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)