Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The overall condition of an organism at a given time.
- noun Soundness, especially of body or mind; freedom from disease or abnormality.
- noun A condition of optimal well-being.
- noun A wish for someone's good health, often expressed as a toast.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
- noun 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?
- noun Natural vigor of the faculties; moral or intellectual soundness.
- noun Power of healing, or giving health; capacity for restoring, strengthening, enlightening, purifying, etc.: chiefly in Scripture.
- noun A salutation or a toast; an invocation of health and happiness for another: as, to drink a health to one.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain.
- noun A wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in a toast.
- noun See under
Bill . - noun a machine for exercise, so arranged that a person lifts an increasing weight, or moves a spring of increasing tension, in such a manner that most of the muscles of the body are brought into gradual action; -- also called
lifting machine . - noun one charged with the enforcement of the sanitary laws of a port or other place.
- noun See under
Drink .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
state ofwell-being orbalance , oftenphysical but sometimes alsomental andsocial ; the overall level offunction of anorganism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level. - noun Physical
condition .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease
- noun the general condition of body and mind
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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brtom commented on the word health
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"
July 19, 2008
bilby commented on the word health
"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
September 2, 2008