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Omicron variant en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The highly virulent B.1.1.529 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
   • PROFESSOR Tulio de Oliveira, best known locally for being one of the national and international experts fighting the Covid-19 pandemic and placing South Africa on the map for the discovery of the Omicron variant, has been named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher for the second consecutive year (2024-2025) in the Cross-Field category. 2025 November 26, “Stellenbosch professor named among world’s top 1% researchers”, in Cape Argus, Cape Town, page 3:
   • Hochul said the omicron variant that has stoked fears of a new spread across the globe has yet to be found in New York, but warned it is likely to arrive. 2021 November 28, Joseph Spector, “New York declares state of emergency as COVID surges: Hochul warns omicron variant is likely to arrive”, in The Journal News, White Plains, NY, page A.2:
   • It remains to be seen whether the Omicron variant newly identified from South Africa and carrying more than 50 point mutations in the genome, among which more than 30 are in the spike region, might out-compete Delta to become the next predominant strain in the near future. 2021, Kit-San Yuen; Zi-Wei Ye; Sin-Yee Fung; Pak-Hin Hinson Cheung; Chi-Ping, Chan; et al., “SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: revisiting the most important research questions”, in Cell & Bioscience, volume 11, →DOI, page 1:

Forms

Coordinates

Omega variant · Lambda variant · Zeta variant · Eta variant · Delta variant · Epsilon variant · Mu variant · Beta variant · Alpha variant · Iota variant · Gamma variant · Theta variant · Kappa variant

Deriveds

Omicron BA.2 · deltacron · Omicron BA.1 · Omicron XE · Stealth Omicron

Hyponyms

Omicron XE · Stealth Omicron · Kraken variant · Omicron BA.1 · XBB · Omicron BA.2

Synonyms

Omicron · omicron virus · omicron · omicron strain · Omicron strain · Omicron virus

Translations (11)

mul B.1.1.529 (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · fi omikronmuunnos (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · cmn 奧密克戎毒株 /奥密克戎毒株 (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · de Omikron-Variante (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · ja オミクロン株 (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · fr variant omicron (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · ro variantă omicron (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · es variante ómicron (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · ko 오미크론 변이 (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · pt variante ómicron (strain of the COVID-19 virus) · ru омикро̀н-вариа́нт (strain of the COVID-19 virus)