Thursday, June 20, 2013

Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: health

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===Etymology===

 

===Etymology===

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From {{etyl|enm|en}} {{term|lang=enm|helthe}}, from {{etyl|ang|en}} {{term|lang=ang|hælþ|hǣlþ}}.

   
 

===Pronunciation===

 

===Pronunciation===


Latest revision as of 23:55, 20 June 2013

Contents

English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English helthe, from Old English hǣlþ.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

health (usually uncountable; plural healths)

  1. The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness. [from 11th c.]
    I think she suffers from autism, ADHD or some other mental health problem.
  2. A state of well-being or balance, often physical but sometimes also mental and social; the overall level of function of an organism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level.
  3. Physical condition.
  4. (obsolete) Cure, remedy. [11th-16th c.]
    • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVII:
      And she myght have a dysshfulle of bloode of a maydyn and a clene virgyne in wylle and in worke, and a kynges doughter, that bloode sholde be her helth, for to anoynte her withall.
  5. (countable) A toast to prosperity. [from 17th c.]
    • 2002, Joshua Scodel, Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature‎, page 213:
      Strikingly, however, Waller does not deny but rather revels in the claim that healths lead to excessive drinking

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

state of being free of physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction

physical condition

overall level of function of an organism

References[edit]

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