health
Meaning
- The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
- 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.
- Physical condition.
- (obsolete) Cure, remedy.
- A toast to prosperity.
- The amount of damage an in-game object can withstand before it is destroyed.
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/hɛlθ/
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 + -th, hale + -th, or heal + -th. More at heal. Doublet of wholth.
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