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healthcraft

healthcraft noun: the art of taking care of one's bodily health.

Noun

healthcraft (uncountable)

  1. (scouting) The art of taking care of one's bodily health.
    • Healthcraft is a further and most important branch of scoutcraft. To secure endurance, physical power, physical courage and skill, it is necessary to have the body in the best possible condition for doing its work […]1932, The Irish Monthly, volume 60, page 72
    • Of course, Girl Scout healthcraft was not all personality development and surreptitious surveillance; there were still merit badges to be earned.2007, Susan A. Miller, Growing Girls, page 219

Origin of healthcraft

From health + -craft.

Questions about healthcraft

What does healthcraft mean?
Healthcraft means the art of taking care of one's bodily health.
What part of speech is healthcraft?
Healthcraft is a noun.

Words near healthcraft in the dictionary

  1. healthcarer
  2. healthcarers
  3. healthcares
  4. healthcentre
  5. healthcentres
  6. healthcraft
  7. healthe
  8. healthen
  9. healthened
  10. healthening
  11. healthens

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