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cold
/kəʊld/ nounDefinition
› [C] a common illness which makes you sneeze and makes your nose produce liquid: I've got a cold. He caught a bad cold at school.
the cold › cold weather or temperatures: She was shivering from the cold.
leave sb out in the cold › to not allow someone to be part of a group or activity: Women's football teams feel they are left out in the cold as far as media coverage is concerned.
(Definition of cold noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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