STD

See also: std and S.T.D.

Translingual

Symbol

STD

1. (international standards, historical) ISO 4217 currency code for the former first São Tomé and Príncipe dobra; a currency used from 1977 to 2018.

English

Adjective

STD

1. Alternative form of std (“standard”).

Noun

STD (countable and uncountable, plural STDs)

2. (medicine) Initialism of sexually transmitted disease.

   Alternative form: S.T.D.

   Synonyms: STI, sexually transmitted infection, VD (dated), venereal disease (dated)

   • 1999, Dr. Ruth's Pregnancy Guide for Couples: Love, Sex, and Medical Facts, →ISBN:

     Some studies estimate that as many as one out of every two people might contract an STD at some point in their lives.

   • 2026 April 17, Marina Hyde, “Is the pope Catholic? JD Vance thinks he has an answer”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Avoiding STDs in 1990s Manhattan, Trump memorably clarified, was “my personal Vietnam … I feel like a great and very brave soldier”.

3. (telephony) Initialism of subscriber trunk dialling or subscriber toll dialing.
4. Initialism of short-term disability.
5. (rare, sometimes humorous) Initialism of save the date.

Translations

sexually transmitted disease — see also sexually transmitted disease

• Catalan: MTS f
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: soa (nl)
• Finnish: sukupuolitauti (fi) (not abbreviation), sp-tauti (uncommon, informal)
• French: MST (fr) f, IST (fr) f
• German: SÜK f (uncommon, though attested, one normally speaks and writes out a full term)
• Greek: ΣΜΝ (SMN)
• Indonesian: PMS
• Navajo: aaʼadiniih
• Portuguese: DST (pt) f
• Romanian: BTS, ITS
• Russian: ЗППП (ru) n (ZPPP)
• Spanish: ETS f, ITS (es) f
• Turkish: CYBH
• Ukrainian: ЗПСШ (ZPSŠ)

Anagrams

• DST, DT's, DTS, DTs, TDS, TDs, TSD, dst