noun

hygiene

HEYE-jeen

noun

The practices and conditions that keep people healthy and clean, especially by preventing disease.

"Good hygiene, like regular handwashing, helps stop germs from spreading."

"The restaurant was fined for poor kitchen hygiene."

How to Use Hygiene

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishKeeping yourself and your surroundings clean to stay healthy.

Common pairings

personal hygiene good hygiene dental hygiene food hygiene

hygienes plural

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Good _____, like regular handwashing, helps stop germs from spreading.

From French hygiène, from Greek hugieinē tekhnē, literally "the art of health," from hugies, meaning "healthy."

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