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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The overall condition of an organism at a given time.
  2. n. Soundness, especially of body or mind; freedom from disease or abnormality.
  3. n. A condition of optimal well-being: concerned about the ecological health of the area.
  4. n. A wish for someone's good health, often expressed as a toast.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. 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. Health implies also, physiologically, the ability to produce offspring fitted to live long and to perform efficiently the ordinary functions of their species.
  2. n. 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?
  3. n. Natural vigor of the faculties; moral or intellectual soundness.
  4. n. Power of healing, or giving health; capacity for restoring, strengthening, enlightening, purifying, etc.: chiefly in Scripture.
  5. n. A salutation or a toast; an invocation of health and happiness for another: as, to drink a health to one.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness. [from 11th c.]
  2. n. 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. n. Physical condition.
  4. n. Cure, remedy. [11th-16th c.]
  5. n. A toast to prosperity. [from 17th c.]

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain.
  2. n. A wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in a toast.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease
  2. n. the general condition of body and mind

Etymologies

  1. Middle English helthe, from Old English hǣlth; see kailo- in Indo-European roots.

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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”

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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 in the primitive church the faithful, and even those in health, used to communicate not only during mass, but also at other times, as is evident from the office of the presanctified, at which, according to the Gelasian sacramentary, all present communicated, as well as from the numerous ancient instances of communion under one kind mentioned in the preceding chapter; for in these cases it was not received during the mass, and many of them are cases of "_persons in health_".”

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  • “what is the X factor in this? is it money or health or partner or childrin? health +childrin+partner - money = ZERO …. you cant injoy life money +health +partner - childrin = ZERO …. childrin are the sweet of life partner + mony+ childrin - health = ZERO …. you will spind your time with doctors”

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  • bilby "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 Sep 2, 2008

  • brtom 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" Jul 18, 2008

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