Social disease
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A sexually transmitted disease dated
"Cooperating in the drive against social disease, all of the 240 co-educational students of Wagner College, Staten Island, a non-sectarian school under the sponsorship of the United Lutheran Synod of New York, started yesterday to take the Wassermann test."
- 2 a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact wordnet
Example
More examples"Cooperating in the drive against social disease, all of the 240 co-educational students of Wagner College, Staten Island, a non-sectarian school under the sponsorship of the United Lutheran Synod of New York, started yesterday to take the Wassermann test."