communicable disease vs common cold

communicable disease and common cold both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
communicable disease	Yes	No	No	No
common cold	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, common cold is a hyponym of communicable disease; that is, common cold is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than communicable disease:

communicable disease: a disease that can be communicated from one person to another
common cold: a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)

Other hyponyms of communicable disease include contagion, contagious disease, infectious disease, cold.

communicable disease (noun)	common cold (noun)
a disease that can be communicated from one person to another	a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)

communicable disease vs common cold

communicable disease and common cold both are nouns.

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