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" Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?"
Petrarch

Meaning of "ailment" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF AILMENT

ˈeɪlmənt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AILMENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ailment is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AILMENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Disease

A disease is a particular abnormal, pathological condition that affects part or all of an organism. It is often construed as a medical condition associated with specific symptoms and signs. It may be caused by factors originally from an external source, such as infectious disease, or it may be caused by internal dysfunctions, such as autoimmune diseases. In humans, "disease" is often used more broadly to refer to any condition that causes pain, dysfunction, distress, social problems, or death to the person afflicted, or similar problems for those in contact with the person. In this broader sense, it sometimes includes injuries, disabilities, disorders, syndromes, infections, isolated symptoms, deviant behaviors, and atypical variations of structure and function, while in other contexts and for other purposes these may be considered distinguishable categories. Diseases usually affect people not only physically, but also emotionally, as contracting and living with many diseases can alter one's perspective on life, and one's personality. Death due to disease is called death by natural causes.

Definition of ailment in the English dictionary

The definition of ailment in the dictionary is a slight but often persistent illness.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AILMENT

assailment · bailment · beguilement · curtailment · defilement · derailment · despoilment · disentailment · embroilment · empalement · engrailment · entailment · fulfilment · impalement · nonfulfilment · prevailment · reconcilement · regalement · retailment · revilement

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AILMENT

aikona · ail · ailanthic · ailanthus · ailanto · aileron · ailette · ailing · ailourophile · ailourophilia · ailourophilic · ailourophobe · ailourophobia · ailourophobic · ailurophile · ailurophilia · ailurophilic · ailurophobe · ailurophobia · ailurophobic

WORDS THAT END LIKE AILMENT

advertisement · annulment · befoulment · bevelment · concealment · devilment · disembowelment · disenthralment · dishevelment · empanelment · enrollment · enrolment · enthrallment · installment · instalment · recallment · revelment · self-fulfilment · signalment · unravelment · wish fulfilment

Synonyms and antonyms of ailment in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «AILMENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «ailment» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «ailment» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF AILMENT

Find out the translation of ailment to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of ailment from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ailment» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

小病
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

achaque
570 millions of speakers
en

English

ailment
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

बीमारी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مرض
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

болезнь
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

achaque
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

আময়
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

affection
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Penyakit
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Leiden
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

> 病気
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

> 병
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Ailment
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khổ sở
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

நோய்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

आजार
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

hastalık
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

disturbo
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

dolegliwość
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

хвороба
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

indispoziție
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ασθένεια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ongesteldheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

krämpa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sykdom
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ailment

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AILMENT»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of ailment
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «ailment».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ailment

EXAMPLES

7 QUOTES WITH «AILMENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ailment.
1
Amitabh Bachchan
I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.
2
Maurice Blanchot
Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.
3
Richard Dreyfuss
I spoke so much about being a manic-depressive. I want to bring everyone back to my earliest memories of this companion of mine. Some people call this companion I have an ailment, or worse a terrible nightmare from which some people cannot awaken. I know that I have nothing to be ashamed of. I have nothing that should garner a stigma.
4
William Christopher Handy
The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.
5
Petrarch
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
6
Plutarch
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
7
Janet Street-Porter
Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AILMENT»

Discover the use of ailment in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ailment and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Lameness: Recognizing and Treating the Horse's Most Common ...
Identifying, assessing, and treating the most common and debilitating equine conditions.
Christine King, Don M. Wagoner, 2005
2
The Ailment and Other Psychoanalytic Essays
The present volume contains his further reflections, with original ideas on the prenatal and biological dimensions of narcissistic phenomena.
Béla Grunberger, Tom Main, Jennifer Johns, 1989
3
Money be Man: The Popularity of Medicines in a Rural ...
... ailment Childhood disease Epilepsy Physical body Stranger Nose Body High body temperature Waist pains Sickness/Ailment Faked ailment Anxiety-related ailment Swelling ailment Childhood disease Ordinary ailment Very serious ailment ...
Kodjo Amedjorteh Senah, 1997
4
Language Typology: A Functional Perspective
(xxvii) ailment, +specific, qualified, negative, operative 84 (i) (xxviii) ailment, + specific, qualified, negative, receptive 84 (ii) Clauses (82) and (88) are not acceptable because '+specific' term doesn't enter into 'marked–unmarked' system .
Alice Caffarel, J. R. Martin, Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen, 2004
5
Omnifray RPG Basic Handbook
When characters eat or drink, from time to time the referee may wish to check to see whether they are exposed to food poisoning, waterborne disease or a similar malady. This is called an ingestion ailment check. In the Mortal Realm, in normal  ...
Matt West, 2009
6
The Dialectics of Inquiry Across the Historical Social Sciences
cluster of symptoms) matches those symptoms associated with an item in his or her inventory, this implies that a particular ailment is present. Expressions of the symbolic-cultural content of an ailment, therefore, are possible, in part, because ...
David Baronov, 2013
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Ethnographic Methods
Model I. The doctor tells you you have got a certain ailment which you have never heard of before. You go out and read some books, and talk to some people, and search some web sites until you have gathered lots of information about this ...
Karen O'Reilly, 2005
8
The Ailment and Other Psychoanalytic Essays
The distinguished British psychoanalyst Tom Main had, throughout his career, a genius for the application of psychoanalysis to other fields: community psychiatry, hospital settings, family planning, marriage guidance, probation and general ...
Tom Main, 1989
9
Special Suggestions for Each Ailment
THIS 34 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: How to Practice Suggestion and Autosuggestion, by Emile Coue. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 156459937X.
Emile Coue, 2010
10
Comparative Hermeneutics of Rabbinic Judaism, The, Volume ...
3:4 A. More strict is the rule applying to the Zab than that applying to the person afflicted with the skin-ailment, and [more strict is the rule applying] to the person afflicted with the skin- ailment than applies to the Zab: B. For the Zab requires ...
Jacob Neusner, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AILMENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ailment is used in the context of the following news items.
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Non-alcoholic fatty liver ailment may hit Indians
Non-alcoholic fatty liver ailment may hit Indians. COMMENTS, Print this Page, PRINT. Chennai | Sunday, Jul 5 2015 IST. : About 30 per cent of Indian population ... «Web India, Jul 15»
2
Investment banking prescriptions for Eldorado Gold's ailment
Much opprobrium has been heaped upon Kinross for “dumb deals” but little has been said about Eldorado Gold. Despite this Eldorado has ... «Brazil Business Today, Jul 15»
3
Eye ailment no deterrent to this lad
For Tusharanshu Sharma, who hails from a small village, Saketri, in Panchkula, nothing could act as a hindrance in achieving his goal. Despite ... «Chandigarh Tribune, Jul 15»
4
58% school kids suffer from ailment due to heavy bags: Report
MUMBAI: Children carry very heavy school bags in comparison to their age and over 58 per cent of students below 10 years of age are ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»
5
60% stone ailment patients in city below 35
LUCKNOW: Junk food generation is getting it back. More than 60% of the patients diagnosed with stone ailments at King George's Medical ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
6
A's pitcher Gray stays in hospital with stomach ailment
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Athletics pitcher Sonny Gray has been diagnosed with a stomach ailment that sent him to a hospital. Gray remained in ... «FOXSports.com, Jul 15»
7
Peter Eavis: Global debt - An ailment with few cures
Central banks can make debt less expensive by pushing down interest rates. However, they cannot slash debt levels to bring quicker relief to ... «Business Standard, Jun 15»
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More people sick in urban areas than rural areas: NSSO Survey
"More than 70 per cent (72 per cent in rural areas and 79 per cent in the urban areas) spells of ailment were treated in the private sector. «Business Standard, Jun 15»
9
Loads of Debt: A Global Ailment With Few Cures
There are some problems that not even $10 trillion can solve. That gargantuan sum of money is what central banks around the world have ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
10
Jessie J Says She's “Not OK” After Mystery Ailment and Surgery
Jessie J is in the hospital, sidelined by some ailment, but she's trying to get back to the stage. The “Flashlight” singer updated her fans on her ... «Wetpaint, Jun 15»
REFERENCE
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