hygiene
UK/ˈhʌɪˌd͡ʒiːn//ˈhaɪˌd͡ʒiːn/
hygiene noun: the science of health, its promotion and preservation.
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.
- The property of having an expansion that is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.
hygiene meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
hygiene in Hindi
- conditions and practices that promote and preserve health
- स्वच्छता svacchatā
hygiene in Tamil
- சுகாதாரம்
hygiene in Urdu
- conditions and practices that promote and preserve health
- حِفْظانِ صِحَت hifzān-e sehat
hygiene in Bengali
- conditions and practices that promote and preserve health
- স্বাস্থ্যবিধি śastthobidhi, স্বাস্থ্যবিজ্ঞান śastthobiggên
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- hygiene in Telugu
- హైజినింగ్, హైజీనింగ్
- hygiene in Malayalam
- ശുചി śuci, ശുചിതപരിപാലനം śucitaparipālanaṁ
- hygiene in Kannada
- ಒಡಲೊಳಿತರಿಮೆ, ಆರೋಗ್ಯಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ, ಆರೋಗ್ಯಸೂತ್ರಗಳು, ನೈರ್ಮಲ್ಯ ಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ
- hygiene in Gujarati
- સ્વચ્છતા svacchatā
- hygiene in Odia
- ହାଇଜିନିଂ, ହାଇଜେନିଂ
- hygiene in Sinhala
- ස්වස්ථතාව swasthatāwa
- hygiene in Nepali
- हाइजिनिङ, हाइजिन्निङ, हाइजिनिंग
- hygiene in Pashto
- حفظ الصحه hefz ol-seha
- hygiene in Tagalog
- palalusugan
- hygiene in Arabic
- عِلْم الصِّحَّة ʕilm aṣ-ṣiḥḥa, عِلْم حِفْظ الصِّحَّة ʕilm ḥifẓ aṣ-ṣiḥḥa, نَظَافَة naẓāfa, حِفْظ الصِّحَّة ḥifẓ aṣ-ṣiḥḥa
- hygiene in Malay
- kebersihan, higin
- hygiene in Indonesian
- kebersihan
- hygiene in Persian
- بهداشت behdâšt, حفظ الصحه hefz ol-seha
- hygiene in Thai
- สุขศึกษา sùk-kà-sʉ̀k-sǎa, สุขลักษณะ sùk-lák-sà-nà, อนามัย à-naa-mai
- hygiene in Vietnamese
- vệ sinh
Examples of hygiene in a sentence
- If you don't practise proper hygiene, illness is sure to follow.
- A mixture of poor diet and poor hygiene caused him inflammation of the emunctory aperture.
- What do you mean "we need to be more careful with hygiene"? Are you implying that I don't wash my hands?
Forms of hygiene
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | hygienes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | hygienes |
| present participle | hygiening |
| past participle | hygiened |
| past | hygiened |
Origin of hygiene
From French hygiène, from Ancient Greek ὑγιεινή (τέχνη) (hugieinḗ (tékhnē), literally “art of health”), from ὑγιεινός (hugieinós, “of health, good for the health, wholesome, sound, healthy”), from ὑγιής (hugiḗs, “healthy, sound”).
Words formed from hygiene
Phrases with hygiene
Questions about hygiene
- What does hygiene mean?
- Hygiene means the science of health, its promotion and preservation.
- What is hygiene in Hindi?
- Hygiene in Hindi is स्वच्छता (svacchatā). See Hygiene meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is hygiene?
- Hygiene is a noun.
- How do you pronounce hygiene?
- Hygiene is pronounced /ˈhʌɪˌd͡ʒiːn/ (UK).
- What is the plural of hygiene?
- The plural of hygiene is hygienes.
Words near hygiene in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hygiene (page history and authors); hygiene (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hygiene (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hygiene (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hygiene (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hygiene (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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