Usually means: Maintenance of health and cleanliness.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word hygiene:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. hygiene: Merriam-Webster
  2. hygiene: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hygiene: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hygiene: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hygiene: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hygiene, hygiene: Wordnik
  7. hygiene: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hygiene: Wiktionary
  9. hygiene: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hygiene: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hygiene: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hygiene: Dictionary.com
  13. hygiene: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hygiene: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hygiene: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hygiene: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hygiene: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hygiene: Rhymezone
  19. Hygiene (f), hygiene: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hygiene: FreeDictionary.org
  21. hygiene: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. hygiene: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. hygiene: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. hygiene: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hygiene: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. hygiene: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hygiene: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. hygiene: Natural Health glossary
  6. Hygiene: MedFriendly Glossary
  7. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  8. hygiene: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. hygiene: Medical dictionary
  10. Hygiene: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hygiene: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hygienes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The science of health, its promotion and preservation.
noun:  Those conditions and practices that promote and preserve health.
noun:  Cleanliness.
noun:  (computing, slang, of a macro) The property of having an expansion that is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.

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