HEALTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does health mean? 

• HEALTH (noun)
  The noun HEALTH has 2 senses:

1. a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease

2. the general condition of body and mind

  Familiarity information: HEALTH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEALTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A healthy state of wellbeing free from disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

health; wellness

Context example:

physicians should be held responsible for the health of their patients

Hypernyms ("health" is a kind of...):

eudaemonia; eudaimonia; upbeat; welfare; well-being; wellbeing (a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous)

Attribute:

healthy (having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease)

unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)

Derivation:

healthy (having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The general condition of body and mind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

in poor health

Hypernyms ("health" is a kind of...):

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Derivation:

healthy (having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease)

 Context examples 

It was almost violent, this health of his, and it seemed to rush out of him and at her in waves of force.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

We were not allowed to converse for any length of time, for the precarious state of my health rendered every precaution necessary that could ensure tranquillity.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

This is my father, and his health is a matter of the most overwhelming importance to me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His health—well, I don’t know that it’s better nor worse for the smoking.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I enjoyed perfect health of body, and tranquillity of mind; I did not feel the treachery or inconstancy of a friend, nor the injuries of a secret or open enemy.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Keep your health strong over the full moon in Virgo due March 9.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It becomes a personal matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my hand upon this gang.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He could not do worse: he ruined his health and his estate amongst the worst men and the worst women.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She had no child to connect her with life and happiness again, no relations to assist in the arrangement of perplexed affairs, no health to make all the rest supportable.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It's not her health that troubles me now, it's her spirits.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)