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hygienes

hygienes is the plural of hygiene.

Meaning of hygiene

Noun

hygiene (countable and uncountable, plural hygienes)

  1. The science of health, its promotion and preservation.
  2. Those conditions and practices that promote and preserve health.
    • Hygiene is an important consideration in places where food is prepared.
  3. Cleanliness.
    • They have poor personal hygiene.
  4. (slang) The property of having an expansion that is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.

Phrases with hygienes

Questions about hygienes

What is hygienes the plural of?
Hygienes is the plural of hygiene.

Words near hygienes in the dictionary

  1. hygieists
  2. hygienal
  3. hygiene
  4. hygiene poverty
  5. hygiene theater
  6. hygienes
  7. hygienic
  8. hygienical
  9. hygienically
  10. hygienics
  11. hygienism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hygienes (page history and authors); hygiene (page history and authors). 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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