Definitions for pneumonia

pneumonia pneu·mo·nia

Spelling: [noo-mohn-yuh, -moh-nee-
IPA: /nʊˈmoʊn yə, -ˈmoʊ ni ə, nyʊ-/

Pneumonia is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 311 anagrams from letters in pneumonia (aeimnnopu).

Definitions for pneumonia

noun

  1. inflammation of the lungs with congestion.
  2. Also called lobar pneumonia. an acute disease of the lungs, caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae and characterized by fever, a cough with blood-tinged phlegm, and difficult breathing.

Origin of pneumonia

1595-1605; New Latin Greek pneumonía. See pneumon-, -ia

Examples for pneumonia

Spread happens easily, however, and epidemics are propagated when the third form of plague occurs: pneumonia plague.

Others had pneumonia and were wasting beneath the stress of their frightful cough.

A week later, it was announced that Liberace had died of pneumonia brought on by AIDS.

Back in my home in Perryville, Missouri, I attended a lady who was dying of pneumonia.

For two weeks he lay, fighting off the threatened attack of pneumonia.

We had been married but a few years when he died—of pneumonia.

His death record shows that Tommy died of pneumonia, but Varnadoe believes it was foul play.

A sudden chill, a sudden cold, and then the grim word, pneumonia!

Context: The comedian said this to his much-younger wife, Erin Fleming, before succumbing to pneumonia.

And you shan't die of pneumonia or—or drownin' if I can help it.

Word Value for pneumonia
Scrable

13

Words with friends

18

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