Find your perfect word!

Definition contagion

Etymology

From Middle English (late 14th century), from Old French, from Latin cont?gi? (“a touching, contact, contagion”) related to conting? (“touch closely”)

Noun

contagion (countable and uncountable, plural contagions)

1. a disease spread by contact
2. the spread or transmission of such a disease
3. the spread of anything harmful, as if it were such a disease
4. (finance) a situation in which small shocks, which initially affect only a few financial institutions or a particular region of an economy, spread to the rest of financial sectors and other countries whose economies were previously healthy
5. (finance) a resulting recession or crisis developed in such manner

Results 215 Words with the letters CONTAGION

You can also try words with the phrase CONTAGION, words starting with the letters CONTAGION, or words ending in the letters CONTAGION.

Favorites Searches

Words… ending with q, starting with q, starting with qa, starting with qo, with two letters, starting with x, starting with j, ending with j,

Some random searches: Words with the letters TZU, Words with the letters UPN, Words with the letters BKE, Words with the letters UF,