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Webster 1913 Edition
Hygiene
Hy′gi-ene
,Noun.
[F.
hygiène
. See Hygeia
.] That department of sanitary science which treats of the preservation of health, esp. of households and communities; a system of principles or rules designated for the promotion of health.
Definition 2024
Hygiene
hygiene
hygiene
English
Noun
hygiene (countable and uncountable, plural hygienes)
- The science of health, its promotion and preservation.
- Those conditions and practices that promote and preserve health.
- Hygiene is an important consideration in places where food is prepared.
- Cleanliness.
- They have poor personal hygiene.
- (computing, slang, of a macro) The property of having an expansion that is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.
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Translations
conditions and practices that promote and preserve health
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External links
- hygiene in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- hygiene in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
hygiene m (definite singular hygienen) (uncountable)
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
hygiene m (definite singular hygienen) (uncountable)