Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The overall condition of an organism at a given time.
- noun Soundness, especially of body or mind; freedom from disease or abnormality.
- noun A condition of optimal well-being.
- noun A wish for someone's good health, often expressed as a toast.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Soundness of body; that condition of a living organism and of its various parts and functions which conduces to efficient and prolonged life; a normal bodily condition.
- noun In an extended use, the general condition of the body with reference to the degree of soundness and vigor, whether normal or impaired: as, good health; ill health; how is your health?
- noun Natural vigor of the faculties; moral or intellectual soundness.
- noun Power of healing, or giving health; capacity for restoring, strengthening, enlightening, purifying, etc.: chiefly in Scripture.
- noun A salutation or a toast; an invocation of health and happiness for another: as, to drink a health to one.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain.
- noun A wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in a toast.
- noun See under
Bill . - noun a machine for exercise, so arranged that a person lifts an increasing weight, or moves a spring of increasing tension, in such a manner that most of the muscles of the body are brought into gradual action; -- also called
lifting machine . - noun one charged with the enforcement of the sanitary laws of a port or other place.
- noun See under
Drink .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
state ofwell-being orbalance , oftenphysical but sometimes alsomental andsocial ; the overall level offunction of anorganism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level. - noun Physical
condition .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease
- noun the general condition of body and mind
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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You might be interested in health taxonomies. taxonomies ~health finds healthcare, medicine, medical.
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And while the health vertical online is quite competitive, many of the names in the segment are not well known to consumers because of the occasional nature of health search.
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And while the health vertical online is quite competitive, many of the names in the segment are not well known to consumers because of the occasional nature of health search.
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-- 'Be careful to let no fretting injure your health as I have suffered it -- health is the greatest of blessings -- with _health_ and
Keats: Poems Published in 1820 John Keats 1808
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Never fear the toil to her: exercise is good for health; and without _health_ there is _no beauty_; a sick beauty may excite pity, but pity is a short-lived passion.
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Now if I want to find everything I have tagged under health and social networking, all I need to do is search for to: +health or to: +socialnetworking and bingo, the article turns up.
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Now if I want to find everything I have tagged under health and social networking, all I need to do is search for to: +health or to: +socialnetworking and bingo, the article turns up.
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Now if I want to find everything I have tagged under health and social networking, all I need to do is search for to: +health or to: +socialnetworking and bingo, the article turns up.
doggdot.us 2008
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Now if I want to find everything I have tagged under health and social networking, all I need to do is search for to: +health or to: +socialnetworking and bingo, the article turns up.
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Most people do not know that the English words whole and health come from the same Germanic root (roughly meaning “undamaged”) as holy.
Why it’s so hard to fix maddening spelling systems The Economist 2021
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Elevian is one of many companies racing to find ways to increase the human life span by increasing “health span,” the period of life when a person is in generally good health.
brtom commented on the word health
When I have thought of the welfare of the earth, the problems of its health and preservation, the care of its life, I have had this place before me ... Wendell Berry "A Native Hill"
July 19, 2008
bilby commented on the word health
"Health is a most important subject. There is a Hindustani proverb: Health is a thousand gifts. The other interests of life should be sacrificed to health."
- Samuel L. Lewis
September 2, 2008