Venereal

Definition: Venereal

Venereal

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the external sex organs; "genital herpes; "venereal disease".

Date "venereal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Venereal

Domain	Definitions
Health	Pertaining or related to or transmitted by sexual contact. (references)
Medicine	Transmitted by sexual intercouse. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Venereal

Synonym: genital (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Venereal

English words defined with "venereal": Antaphrodisiac, Antiorgastic, Antivenereal, Aphroditic ♦ chancroid, clap ♦ Gode-year, gonorrhea, gonorrhoea, Goujere, granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum ♦ Lock hospital, Love potion ♦ pox ♦ syph, syphilis, Syphilitically ♦ Tub fast ♦ venereal disease, venereal wart, Venerean, Venereous. (references)

Specialty definitions using "venereal": Bejuco mulato, BLUE BOAR, BUBE ♦ CAMPELIA ZANONIA, contagious equine metritis, COSTUS VILLOSISSIMUS, CRINKUMS ♦ DESMODIUM ADSCENDENS, DREPANOCARPUS LUNATUS, DRURY LANE AGUE, DUMB WATCH ♦ FIRE SHIP, FRENCHIFIED ♦ LOCK HOSPITAL ♦ MALACHRA ♦ Neisseria meningitidis, NIMGIMMER ♦ Pepenance, PEPPERED, PLUMBAGO ACUTIFOLIA ♦ SABICEA HIRSUTA, Santa Maria, SCOPARIA DULCIS, SHANKER ♦ Taylorella equigenitalis infection, Treponema pallidum ♦ Venereal Soup, Venereal Tumors, Veterinary, VENUS'S CURSE. (references)

Etymologies containing "venereal": Aphroditic. (references)

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Modern Usage: Venereal

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Do you know what aspects of venereal disease she wants books on? (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman; writing credit: Jerry Adelman; Daniel Gregory Browne)
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Commercial Usage: Venereal

Domain	Title
Books	Coping With Venereal Disease (reference) DANGEROUS LIAISONS. A Social History of Venereal Disease in Twentieth-Century Scotland. (Clio Medica/The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine 57) (reference) Feminizing Venereal Disease: The Body of the Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Medical Discourse (reference) No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States Since 1880 (reference) Out Of Otherness. Characters and Narrators in the Dutch Venereal Disease Debates 1850-1990. (Clio Medica/The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine 47) (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Venereal

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	U.S. American National Red Cross Hospital No. 9, Paris, France. : Front view of hospital, used for treatment of skin and venereal diseases.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Sex Exposure Without Prophylaxis PRO - AXIS : Venereal Disease Helps The Enemy.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	[A USPHS clinic for the study of venereal diseases].Credit: National Library of Medicine.		"Venereal Disease Control, Thirty Years War." / [Umberto Romano].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Don't Sweat It Out : Prophylaxis Prevents Venereal Disease.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Georgia, 1937(?)--A group of Black men receiving intravenous treatment in a Georgia venereal disease clinic.Credit: Library of Congress.
	A negro receiving intravenous treatment in a Georgia venereal disease clinic.Credit: Library of Congress.		When you go home - "carry on" the army's fight against venereal diseases / McMennamin.Credit: Library of Congress.
	We've fought in the open - bubonic plague, yellow fever, tuberculosis--now venereal diseases / H. Dewitt Welsh.Credit: Library of Congress.		You kept fit and defeated the Hun - now set a high standard, a clean America! Stamp out venereal diseases / / E. Fuhr.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Venereal

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), once called venereal diseases, are among the most common infectious diseases in the United States today. (references)
		Genital warts (also called venereal warts or condylomata acuminata) are caused by human papillomavirus, a virus related to the virus that causes common skin warts. (references)
Women	Tajikistan	The law prohibits keeping brothels, procuring, making, or selling pornography, infecting another person with a venereal disease, and the sexual exploitation of women; however, prostitutes operate openly at night in certain urban areas. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Venereal

"Venereal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.26% of the time. "Venereal" is used about 115 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	98.26%	113	30,464
Noun (proper)	1.74%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	115	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Venereal

Expressions using "venereal": venereal disease ♦ venereal diseases ♦ venereal wart. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "venereal": venereal-disease.
	Ending with "venereal": non-venereal.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Venereal

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
venereal disease	238
venereal wart	168
venereal	23
disease picture venereal	19
disease symptom venereal	18
transmissible tumor venereal	6
venereal wart photo	6
disease photo venereal	5
venereal wart treatment	4
disease disease sexually transmitted venereal	4
herpes non venereal	3
oral sex venereal	3
disease type venereal	2
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Modern Translations: Venereal

Language		Translations for "venereal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		venerian. (various references)

Arabic		‏مرض تناسلي, ‏تناسلي (genital, reproductive, sexual, social). (various references)

Bulgarian		венерически, полов (carnal, copulative, genital, sensual, sex, sexual). (various references)

Chinese		性爱. (various references)

Czech		venerický, pohlavní (sexual). (various references)

Danish		venerisk (sexually transmitted). (various references)

Dutch		venerisch, geslachts- (genital). (various references)

Esperanto		venerea. (various references)

Farsi		میزشی , مقاربتی (Copulative), زهروی . (various references)

Finnish		viides sukupuolitauti (lymphogranuloma venereum, Nicolas-Durand-Favre disease, Nicolas-Favre disease, venereal lymphogranuloma), veneerinen tauti (sexually transmitted disease, venereal disease), sukupuolitauti (sexually transmitted disease, venereal disease), sukuelinten sairaustila (venereal disease), sukuelinsairaus (venereal disease), STD (sexually transmitted disease, venereal disease), lymphogranuloma venereum (lymphogranuloma venereum, Nicolas-Durand-Favre disease, Nicolas-Favre disease, venereal lymphogranuloma). (various references)

French		vénérien. (various references)

German		venerisch. (various references)

Greek		αφροδισιακόσ, αφροδίσιοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		מי� י (generic, sexual), של מחלת מין. (various references)

Hungarian		nemi (carnal, copulatory, generic, genital, sexual, some). (various references)

Italian		venereo (genital). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		性病 (venereal disease). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		せいびょう (Confucian temple, crack troops, elite soldiers, picked troops, venereal disease). (various references)

Manx		comyssagh (copulatory, genital, offensive, promiscuous, slighting). (various references)

Pig Latin		enerealvay

Portuguese		venéreo, venéreo. (various references)

Romanian		veneric. (various references)

Russian		венерический. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		veneričan, polni (sexual). (various references)

Spanish		venéreo. (various references)

Swedish		venerisk. (various references)

Turkish		zührevi, cinsel ilişki ile ilgili, cinsel ilişki ile bulaşan. (various references)

Ukranian		статевий (genital, oestrous, reproductive, sexual), венеричний. (various references)

Welsh		gwenerol. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Venereal

Misspellings
	"Venereal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beneteau, evenereal, venerael, veneral, venerale, venerel, venerial. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Venereal"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "venereal" (pronounced vuni"rēul)
5	-i" r ē u l	antibacterial, arterial, bacterial, biomaterial, cereal, ethereal, immaterial, imperial, managerial, material, serial.
4	-r ē u l	actuarial, adversarial, advertorial, aerial, ambassadorial, arboreal, Ariel, burial, conspiratorial, curatorial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, endometrial, equatorial, extraterrestrial, extraterritorial, gubernatorial, immemorial, industrial, janitorial, magisterial, malarial, memorial, mercurial, ministerial, nomenclatorial, pictorial, professorial, prosecutorial, raptorial, reportorial, sartorial, secretarial, senatorial, terrestrial, territorial, tutorial, vitriol.
3	-ē u l	adverbial, alluvial, biaxial, bicentennial, biennial, binomial, bronchial, centennial, ceremonial, coaxial, collegial, colloquial, colonial, convivial, custodial, decennial, entrepreneurial, filial, fluvial, intracranial, jovial, laryngeal, lineal, marsupial, matrilineal, matrimonial, medial, menial, microbial, millennial, myocardial, parochial, patrilineal, perennial, pluvial, polynomial, primordial, proverbial, pseudopodial, quadrennial, radial, remedial, testimonial, tracheal, triennial, trivial, vestigial.
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Anagrams: Venereal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-l-n-r-v"
	-2 letters: eleven, evener, laveer, leaner, leaven, leaver, releve, reveal, vealer, veneer, vernal.
	-3 letters: anele, elver, laree, laver, learn, leave, levee, lever, navel, nerve, never, ranee, ravel, raven, reave, reeve, renal, revel, veena, velar, venae, venal.
	-4 letters: alee, aver, earl, earn, eave, elan, erne, even, ever, lane, lave, lean, lear, leer, leva, nave, near, neve, rale, rave, real, reel, vale, vane, veal, veer, vela, vena, vera.
	-5 letters: ale, ane, are, ave, ear, eel, era, ere, ern, eve, lar, lav, lea, lee, lev, nae, nee, ran, ree, rev, van, var, vee.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-l-n-r-v"
	+1 letter: relevance, venerable.
	+2 letters: heavenlier, interleave, lavendered, prevalence, relevances, revealment, unrevealed.
	+3 letters: deliverance, interleaved, interleaves, irrelevance, overcleaned, overlearned, prevalences, preventable, relevancies, revealments, reverential.
	+4 letters: cantilevered, deliverances, inveterately, irrelevances, maneuverable, overreliance, unreviewable.
	+5 letters: irrelevancies, overexplained, overreliances, removableness, reverberantly, reverentially, undeliverable, unrecoverable, unserviceable, venerableness, veritableness, versatileness.
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