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cold
noun [C] (ILLNESS) /kəʊld/
/koʊld/ Definition
A2 a common infection, especially in the nose and throat, that often causes a cough, a slight fever, and sometimes some pain in the muscles: I've got a cold. She caught a cold at school.UK informal Don't come near me - I've got a stinking/streaming cold (= extremely bad cold).Colds and fluFevers and infectious diseases
(Definition of cold noun (ILLNESS) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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