health
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hĕlth
ipa: /hɛlθ/
ipa: [hɛl̪θ]
rhymes: -ɛlθ
Forms: form: healths
form: helth
form: helthe
form: healthe
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.
Senses: examples: text: Her mental health is really affected by stressful environments.
text: My granpa still enjoys very good health.
text: 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.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
examples: text: The directors are concerned about the financial health of the project.
glosses: 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.
glosses: Physical condition.
glosses: Cure, remedy.
examples: text: Strikingly, however, Waller does not deny but rather revels in the claim that healths lead to excessive drinking
ref: 2002, Joshua Scodel, Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature, page 213:
glosses: A toast to prosperity.
examples: text: The enemies on this level have a lot of health.
text: 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.
ref: 2018 March 6, Martin Robinson, “Dispelling the myths of Bloodborne”, in Eurogamer:
topics: video-games
glosses: The amount of damage an in-game object can withstand before it is destroyed.
Derived terms: allied health
bill of health
cyberhealth
digital health
eHealth
e-health
health activation
health and fitness age
health and safety
healthbar
health bar
health behavior
health behaviour
healthcare
health-care
health care
health center
health centre
health club
health code
health-conscious
health education
healthen
health farm
health faucet
health food
healthful
health fund
health hazard
healthie
healthification
healthify
healthiness
health informatics
health insurance
healthism
healthist
health is your first wealth
healthless
healthlike
health physicist
health physics
health point
health product
health resort
healthscape
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health shake
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health spa
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health stamp
health system
health tourism
health visitor
healthward
health warning
healthwise
health worker
healthy
ill-health
ill health
in health
in sickness and in health
in the pink of health
life, prosperity, health
mental health
occy health
Personal Social Health Education
pink of health
prehealth
public health
reproductive health
subhealth
telebehavioral health
telehealth
telemental health
to your health
unhealth
Vale of Health
World Health Organization
Related terms: heal