dose: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 5 letter points · starts with D · ends with E
Meaning of dose
noun
A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
Example: Why did he give you only a single 500 mg dose? The correct dosage of this antibiotic is one 500 mg tablet twice a day for 10 days.
The quantity of an agent (not always active), substance, or radiation administered or experienced at any one time.
- figuratively
A good measure or lengthy experience of something.
Example: a healthy dose of skepticism.
- Ireland, colloquial
A cold; a common, viral illness of the nasal passage, sometimes with fever.
Example: There's a dose going round.
Listed forms: doses.
Source: Wiktionary — dose.
verb
- transitive
To administer a dose (of medicine) to.
To prescribe a dose.
- transitive
To surreptitiously administer a dose of an incapacitating drug (to an unwilling subject); to roofie.
- dated, transitive
To transmit a venereal disease to.
Listed forms: doses, dosing, dosed.
Source: Wiktionary — dose.
noun
- alt-of, archaic
Archaic form of doze.
Base or related entry: doze.
Listed forms: doses.
Source: Wiktionary — dose.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for dose.
noun
a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
noun
the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time
noun
a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact
- venereal disease
- VD
- venereal infection
- social disease
- Cupid's itch
- Cupid's disease
- Venus's curse
- sexually transmitted disease
- STD
noun
street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
- acid
- back breaker
- battery-acid
- dot
- Elvis
- loony toons
- Lucy in the sky with diamonds
- pane
- superman
- window pane
- Zen
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is dose in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of dose
D(2) + O(1) + S(1) + E(1) = 5 points.
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Anagrams of dose
2 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from dose
11 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in dose. Showing up to 24, longest first.