health
/ˈhɛlθ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.44 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
Uncountable
noun
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.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Her mental health is really affected by stressful environments."
- "My grampa still enjoys very good health."
- "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."
- "The directors are concerned about the financial health of the project."
- "Strikingly, however, Waller does not deny but rather revels in the claim that healths lead to excessive drinking"
- "The enemies on this level have a lot of health."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos Proto-Germanic *hailaz Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂der. Proto-Germanic *-iþō Proto-Germanic *hailiþō Proto-West Germanic *hailiþu Old English hǣlþ Middle English helthe English health Inherited from Middle English helthe, from Old English hǣlþ, from Proto-West Germanic *hailiþu, from Proto-Germanic *hailiþō, from *hailaz + *-iþō. Cognate with Old High German heilida. Analyzable as whole, hale, or heal + -th (abstract nominal suffix). More at heal. Doublet of wholth.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈhɛlθ/
- British English: /ˈhɛlθ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
healths (plural)
helth (alternative, obsolete)
helthe (alternative, obsolete)
healthe (alternative, obsolete)