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Webster 1913 Edition

Ailment

Ail′ment

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Noun.

Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; – not applied ordinarily to acute diseases.

“Little ailments.”

Landsdowne.

Webster 1828 Edition

Ailment

A'ILMENT

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Noun.

Disease; indisposition; morbid affection of the body; but the word is not applied ordinarily to acute diseases.

Definition 2024

ailment

ailment

English

Noun

ailment ‎(plural ailments)

Something which ails one; a disease; sickness.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, chapter 2/9/1, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
  He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.

Translations

something which ails one; a disease; sickness

Bulgarian: болест (bg) f ‎(bolest), болка (bg) f ‎(bolka)
Esperanto: malsano (eo)
Finnish: sairaus (fi), vaiva (fi)
French: maladie (fr) f
German: Leiden (de) n
Greek: ασθένεια (el) f ‎(asthéneia), αρρώστια (el) f ‎(arróstia), νόσος (el) f ‎(nósos), πάθηση (el) f ‎(páthisi)
Irish: breoiteacht f
Italian: disturbo (it) m, indisposizione f, affezione (it) f, male (it) m, malattia (it) f, acciacco (it) m, malanno (it) m

Kurdish:
Sorani: دەرد (ku)
Latin: morbus (la)
Portuguese: enfermidade (pt) f
Romanian: indispoziție (ro)
Russian: боле́знь (ru) f ‎(boléznʹ), неду́г (ru) m ‎(nedúg), нездоро́вье (ru) n ‎(nezdoróvʹje), недомога́ние (ru) n ‎(nedomogánije)
Scottish Gaelic: galar m, tinneas m, euslaint f, trioblaid f
Spanish: dolencia (es) f, enfermedad (es) f, achaque (es) m
Telugu: రోగము (te) ‎(rōgamu)

External links

ailment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
ailment in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

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