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health | heathy |

As a noun health

is the state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.

As an adjective heathy is

resembling heath.

health

English

(wikipedia health)

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
  • :
  • *, chapter=4
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=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.}}
  • 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.
  • *, Bk.XVII, Ch.XI:
  • *:And she myght have a dysshfulle of bloode of a maydyn and a clene virgyne in wylle and in worke, and a kynges doughter, that bloode sholde be her helth , for to anoynte her withall.
  • (countable) A toast to prosperity.
  • *

    • Derived terms

    * healthiness * healthy * healthcare * bill of health * health food * health worker

    Related terms

    * heal

    References

    * *

    heathy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Resembling heath
  • * {{quote-book, year=1786, author=Boswell, title=Life Of Johnson, Volume 5, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The hills here, and indeed all the heathy grounds in general, abound with the sweet-smelling plant which the Highlanders call gaul , and (I think) with dwarf juniper in many places. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1884, author=A C and F T Gregory, title=Journals of Australian Explorations, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The country consists of elevated sandy downs covered with heathy bushes and a few small banksia trees, it being only on the alluvial flats of the river that there is any grass or good soil. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1894, author=John Muir, title=The Mountains of California, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Here make ground for a meadow; there, for a garden and grove, making it smooth and fine for small daisies and violets and beds of heathy bryanthus, spicing it well with crystals, garnet feldspar, and zircon." }}