typhoid fever

noun

: a communicable disease marked especially by fever, diarrhea, prostration, headache, and intestinal inflammation and caused by a bacterium (Salmonella typhi)

Examples of typhoid fever in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Doctors, fearing life-threatening typhoid fever would spread from contaminated floodwaters, went around Louisville giving immunizations to thousands. —Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025

When Willie Lincoln, the third son of President Lincoln, died at age 11 of typhoid fever, he was interred in a mausoleum in Oak Hill Cemetery. —Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025

People died from lack of clean water which spread typhoid fever. —David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025

In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and shirtwaists were fashionable and typhoid fever often killed more soldiers than combat. —Will Weissert, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1829, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for typhoid fever

• unbeliever
• achiever
• believer
• deceiver
• perceiver
• receiver
• reliever
• retriever
• transceiver
• cleaver
• leaver
• weaver

Kids Definition

typhoid fever

noun

: a disease that is caused by a bacterium, is characterized especially by fever, diarrhea, weakness, headache, and an inflamed intestine, and is passed from one person to another in contaminated food or water

Medical Definition

typhoid fever

noun

: a communicable disease marked by fever, diarrhea, prostration, headache, splenomegaly, eruption of rose-colored spots, leukopenia, and intestinal inflammation and caused by a bacterium of the genus Salmonella (S. typhi)