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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The state of being healthy, happy, or prosperous; welfare.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Well-conditioned existence: good mode of being; moral or physical welfare; a state of life which secures or tends toward happiness. Sometimes written wellbeing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state or condition of being well; welfare; happiness; prosperity.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a state of health, happiness and/or prosperity

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous
  • noun a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous

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