welfare

Meaning

1. Health, safety, happiness and prosperity; well-being in any respect.
2. Various forms of financial aid provided by the government to those who are in need of it.

welfare

well-being

prosperity

weal

wellbeing

good

benefit

happiness

safety

social welfare

well being

public assistance

health

good times

social

fringe benefit

eudaemonia

eudaimonia

upbeat

welfare work

well

peace

blessing

salute

pleasure

goodness

convenience

fate

advantage

weal and woe

rise and fall

ups and downs

vicissitudes

social security

social service

beneficence

benevolence

prosperousness

wheal

right

material benefits

good health

good fortune

completeness

comfort

comfortableness

wellness

national assistance

social assistance

native

quality of life

morale

charity

philanthropy

blessed

happy

necessary

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈwɛlˌfɛə/

From Middle English welefare, probably from the Old English phrase wel faran (“to fare well, get along successfully, prosper”) (cognate with Middle Dutch welvare (“welfare”), Middle Low German wolvare (“welfare”), Middle High German wolvar, wolfar (“welfare”)). Equivalent to well + fare. Compare also West Frisian wolfeart, Dutch welvaart, German Wohlfahrt, Old Norse velferð (whence Swedish välfärd (“welfare”)). The first recorded use in the sense of "social concern for the well-being of children, the unemployed, etc." is from 1904 and in the sense of "organized effort to provide for maintenance of members of a group" from 1918.