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From Middle English helthe, from Old English hǣlþ.
Pronunciation
Noun
health (usually uncountable; plural healths)
- A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity; wellness.
- The state of being free of physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction.
- Physical condition.
- Emotional condition.
- The overall level of function of an organism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level.
- (countable) A toast to prosperity.
- 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
- 2002 Joshua Scodel, Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature, page 213:
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References
- health in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- health in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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