flus
SayFLOOZ/fluz/
- 1Plural of flu.
Seasonal flus tend to circulate widely during the winter months.
Doctors track several flus each year before settling on a vaccine.
Note
A plural that exists only because a mass noun sometimes gets counted. Flu, short for influenza, normally takes no plural: you catch flu, or the flu. The -s form turns up when separate strains, seasons or outbreaks are being compared, as in this year's flus or the two flus that circulated. The informal sense, stomach flu, follows the same pattern.
flus is a form of flu
flu, noun: A contagious illness caused by the influenza virus, bringing fever, muscle aches, fatigue, and respiratory symptoms. Full entry
- Forms
- fluflus plural
- Spelling
- flu → flus: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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