HEALTH


Meaning of HEALTH in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ helθ ]

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.

1.

A person’s health is the condition of their body and the extent to which it is free from illness or is able to resist illness.

Caffeine is bad for your health.

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2.

Health is a state in which a person is not suffering from any illness and is feeling well.

In hospital they nursed me back to health.

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3.

The health of something such as an organization or a system is its success and the fact that it is working well.

There’s no way to predict the future health of the banking industry.

= prosperity

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