Phrase guide

health care

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The prevention, treatment, and management of illness or the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • I think free health care should also cover nearsightedness.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

the preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by the health profession

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: healthcare

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: care, attention, aid, tending

3

noun

Meaning 3

social insurance for the ill and injured

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: social insurance

Narrower terms: Medicare, Medicaid, primary health care

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

58 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: رِعَايَة صِحِّيَّة (riʕāya ṣiḥḥiyya) — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Armenian: առողջապահություն (aṙoġǰapahutʻyun) — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Belarusian: ахо́ва здаро́ўя (axóva zdarówja) — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Bulgarian: здравеопазване (zdraveopazvane) — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Chinese Mandarin: 衛生保健 /卫生保健 (wèishēng bǎojiàn) — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Chinese Mandarin: 醫療保健 /医疗保健 (yīliáo bǎojiàn) — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Chinese Mandarin: 醫療 /医疗 (yīliáo) — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Czech: zdravotnictví — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Danish: sundhedsvæsen — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Dutch: gezondheidszorg — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Estonian: tervishoid — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Finnish: terveydenhoito — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Finnish: terveydenhuolto — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Finnish: sairaanhoito — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • French: soins de santé — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • German: Gesundheitsfürsorge — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • German: Gesundheitswesen — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • German: medizinische Versorgung — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Greek: φροντίδα υγείας (frontída ygeías) — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Hindi: स्वास्थ्य सेवा (svāsthya sevā) — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Hungarian: egészségügy — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Hungarian: egészségügyi ellátás — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Hungarian: betegellátás — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Hungarian: közegészségügy — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Ido: sanesoflego — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Indonesian: layanan kesehatan — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Italian: sanità — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Italian: assistenza sanitaria — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Italian: servizio sanitario — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Japanese: 医療 (iryō) — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Japanese: ヘルスケア (herusukea) — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Korean: 의료 (uiryo) — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Macedonian: здравство (zdravstvo) — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Malay: penjagaan kesihatan — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Burmese: ကျန်းမာရေးစောင့်ရှောက်ခြင်း (kyan:mare:caung.hraukhkrang:) — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Norwegian Bokmål: helseomsorg — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Norwegian Bokmål: helsevesen — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: helseomsorg — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Polish: opieka zdrowotna — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Portuguese: assistência médica — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Romanian: îngrijirea sănătății — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Russian: здравоохране́ние (zdravooxranénije) — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Serbo-Croatian: здравство — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Serbo-Croatian: здравствена заштита — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Serbo-Croatian: zdravstvo — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Serbo-Croatian: zdravstvena zaštita — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Slovak: zdravotníctvo — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Slovene: zdrávstvo — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Spanish: asistencia sanitaria — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Spanish: atención médica — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Swedish: sjukvård — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Swedish: hälsovård — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Swedish: vård — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Tagalog: palagamutan — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Ottoman Turkish: صحیه (sıhhıye) — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Ukrainian: охоро́на здоро́в'я (oxoróna zdoróvʺja) — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Vietnamese: y tế — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses
  • Yiddish: געזונט־אַסיגנאַציע (gezunt-asignatsye) — prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses