English Explanatory Dictionary

fever

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.
  2. Any of various diseases.
  3. A state of excitement or anxiety.
  4. A group of stingrays.
  5. Sexual attraction towards a specific group of people.
verb
  1. To put into a fever; to affect with fever.
  2. To become fevered.

Pronunciation

/ˈfiːvə/ /ˈfivɚ/ en-us-fever.ogg

Word forms

fever fevers feaver fevre fevering fevered

Etymology

From Middle English fever, fevere, from Old English fefer, fefor (“fever”) and Old French fievre (“fever”), from Latin febris (“a fever”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”). Displaced native Old English hriþ (“fever”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Fiewer, German Fieber, Danish feber, Swedish feber.

Synonyms

high temperature pyrexia temperature excitation excitement passion

Related words

feed a cold, starve a fever fever ague fever and ague fever blister fever bush fever grass fever lent fever of unknown origin fever pitch fever powder fever ring Fever River fever root fever sore fever therapy fever thermometer fever treatment fever tree fever twig Foshay-Mollaret cat-scratch fever syndrome febrile fervent fervid fervor hyperthermia

Derived words

7-day fever African swine fever virus antifever Arab fever baby fever Bieber fever Botany Bay fever bovine ephemeral fever bovine infectious petechial fever bovine malignant catarrhal fever bovine petechial fever brain fever brain-fever brain-fever bird buck fever Bulam fever camp fever cat scratch fever cedar fever Charcot intermittent fever Charcot's intermittent fever drain fever enfever familial Mediterranean fever feverable fever-bark fever-blister fever bush fever-chart fever clinic fever coat fever-cooling fever dream fevered feveret fever-fly fever fog fever-heat fever-hectic feverish feverless feverlike fever-lurdan fever-lurden fever-lurgan fever-lurk feverly fever-nut feverous fever pitch fever-pitched fever-powder fever-ridden feverroot fever-sick feversome fever-sore fever-swamp fever swamp fever tea

Translations

Afrikaans: koors Arabic: حَرَارَة Armenian: հուզմունք Belarusian: ліхама́нка Chinese Mandarin: 狂熱 /狂热 Chinese Mandarin: 熱 /热 Czech: horečka Finnish: kuume Finnish: huuma Finnish: vimma Greek: πυρετός Hungarian: izgalom Hungarian: izgatottság Norwegian Bokmål: feber Pannonian Rusyn: горучка Polish: gorączka Polish: podniecenie Russian: жар Russian: лихора́дка Russian: горя́чка Sicilian: liscìa Sicilian: lisìa Sicilian: scìḍḍicu Sicilian: scipitirìa Swahili: homa Swedish: feber Ukrainian: лихома́нка
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