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health
[ helth ]
noun
- the general condition of the body or mind with reference to soundness and vigor:
good health;
poor health.
- soundness of body or mind; freedom from disease or ailment:
to have one's health;
to lose one's health.
Synonyms: , , , ,
- a polite or complimentary wish for a person's health, happiness, etc., especially as a toast:
We drank a health to our guest of honor.
- vigor; vitality:
economic health.
health
/ ɛθ /
noun
- the state of being bodily and mentally vigorous and free from disease
- the general condition of body and mind
in poor health
- the condition of any unit, society, etc
the economic health of a nation
- a toast to a person, wishing him or her good health, happiness, etc
- modifier of or relating to food or other goods reputed to be beneficial to the health
health food
a health store
- modifier of or relating to health, esp to the administration of health
a health committee
health service
health resort
interjection
- an exclamation wishing someone good health as part of a toast (in the phrases your health, good health, etc)
Other Word Forms
- ٳw adjective adverb
- ܲ·ٳ noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of health1
Idioms and Phrases
see clean bill of health .Example Sentences
Faced with potential federal spending cuts that threaten health coverage and falling childhood vaccination rates, Monica Soni, the chief medical officer of Covered California, has a lot on her plate — and on her mind.
"I immediately knew what the impact was," Nichols, a Boston University associate professor of global health and infectious disease mathematical modeller, told Salon in a video call.
Measles has been confirmed in a Los Angeles County resident who recently returned from Texas, a state that is in the midst of an outbreak of the highly infectious disease, health officials said Friday.
They argued that he carried out Mr Thompson's murder "to amplify an ideological message" and spark resistance to the health insurance industry.
Pope Francis, the first ever Latin American pope, died on Monday aged 88, following a period of ill health that led to him spending five weeks in hospital with double pneumonia.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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