AstraZeneca
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AstraZeneca
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From AstraZeneca, a pharmaceutical and biotechnology company that created the vaccine. The company name was formed by the merger of Astra AB and Zeneca. Astra is from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́στρον (ắstron, “star”), whereas Zeneca, the company stated, “is an invented name, created by an agency instructed to find a name which began with a letter from either the top or bottom of the alphabet and was phonetically memorable, of no more than three syllables and did not have an offensive meaning in any language.”
proper noun AstraZenecas
- The COVID-19 vaccine made by the AstraZeneca company. Have you been injected with AstraZeneca, la la la la la?
Talk about this word "AstraZeneca." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/astrazeneca. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. AstraZeneca. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/astrazeneca "AstraZeneca." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/astrazeneca.Cite this
@misc{astrazeneca_2026,
title = {AstraZeneca},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/astrazeneca},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
