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Spanish influenza en · NOUN

Etymology

Named after Spain, which reported on the spread of disease as a neutral state while most other countries fighting World War I impose censorship, leading to a mistaken impression that it was concentrated in Spain.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) A form of influenza that spread to nearly every part of the world in a pandemic between 1918 and 1920, killing from 20 to 100 million people.
   • By systematic organization and effort we have been endeavoring to combat Spanish Influenza in Luzerne County, with its population of 350,000 souls. 1920, Oscar Jewell Harvey, The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918, Pennsylvania: Wilkes-Barre, page 25:

Forms

Coordinates

bird flu · swine flu

Relateds

heliotrope cyanosis · H1N1

Synonyms

purulent bronchitis

Translations (22)

pt gripe espanhola (influenza pandemic) · sv spanska sjukan (influenza pandemic) · eo hispana gripo (influenza pandemic) · cs španělská chřipka (influenza pandemic) · gl gripe española (influenza pandemic) · es gripe española (influenza pandemic) · mk шпански грип (influenza pandemic) · cmn 西班牙流感 (influenza pandemic) · de Spanische Grippe (influenza pandemic) · pl hiszpanka (influenza pandemic) · da spanske syge (influenza pandemic) · nl Spaanse griep (influenza pandemic) · ru испа́нка (influenza pandemic) · ja スペインかぜ (influenza pandemic) · es gripe de 18 (influenza pandemic) · et Hispaania gripp (influenza pandemic) · hu spanyolnátha (influenza pandemic) · fi espanjantauti (influenza pandemic) · is spænska veikin (influenza pandemic) · ja スペイン風邪 (influenza pandemic) · gl gripo (influenza pandemic) · es gripe de 1918 (influenza pandemic)