health
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Definition of health
7 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(uncountable, usually)The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
“Her mental health is really affected by stressful environments.”
“My grampa still enjoys very good health.”
“Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.”
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noun
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(uncountable, usually)The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
“Her mental health is really affected by stressful environments.”
“My grampa still enjoys very good health.”
“Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.”
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(uncountable, usually)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.
“The directors are concerned about the financial health of the project.”
- (uncountable, usually)Physical condition.
- (obsolete, uncountable, usually)Cure, remedy.
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(countable, usually)A toast to prosperity.
“Strikingly, however, Waller does not deny but rather revels in the claim that healths lead to excessive drinking”
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(uncountable, usually)The amount of damage an in-game object can withstand before it is destroyed.
“The enemies on this level have a lot of health.”
“Lose a little health and there's a few seconds in which you'll be able to win it back by ragging on an enemy.”
“Enemies can knock your health down to zero if you're not careful and item upgrades are slow to come by.”
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(obsolete)A warrior; hero; man.
“They, under false pretence of amity and cheer, the British peers invite, the German healths to view.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English helthe, from Old English hǣlþ, from Proto-West Germanic *hailiþu, from Proto-Germanic *hailiþō, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, hale”). Cognate with Old High German heilida. Analyzable as whole, hale, or heal + -th (abstract nominal suffix). More at heal. Doublet of wholth.
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