TYPHUS FEVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does typhus fever mean? 

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

1. rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TYPHUS FEVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

typhus; typhus fever

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

rickettsial disease; rickettsiosis (infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "typhus fever"):

endemic typhus; murine typhus; rat typhus; urban typhus (acute infection caused by rickettsia and transmitted by the bite of an infected flea; characterized by fever and chills and muscle aches and a rash)

 Context examples 

I wrote to him; I said I was sorry for his disappointment, but Jane Eyre was dead: she had died of typhus fever at Lowood.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When the typhus fever had fulfilled its mission of devastation at Lowood, it gradually disappeared from thence; but not till its virulence and the number of its victims had drawn public attention on the school.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

On that same occasion I learned, for the first time, from Miss Abbot's communications to Bessie, that my father had been a poor clergyman; that my mother had married him against the wishes of her friends, who considered the match beneath her; that my grandfather Reed was so irritated at her disobedience, he cut her off without a shilling; that after my mother and father had been married a year, the latter caught the typhus fever while visiting among the poor of a large manufacturing town where his curacy was situated, and where that disease was then prevalent: that my mother took the infection from him, and both died within a month of each other.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)