Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to health or the protection of health.
- adjective Free from elements, such as filth or pathogens, that endanger health; hygienic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A public water-closet, urinal, and lavatory.
- Pertaining to health or hygiene or the preservation of health; hygienic; healthy.
- Synonyms Sanitary, Sanatory. These two words are often confounded. Sanitary means “pertaining to health, hygienic”: as, sanitary science; sanitary conditions (which may be good or bad). Sanatory means “serving to heal, therapeutic”: as, sanatory medicines or agencies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health; hygienic. See the Note under
sanatory . - adjective See under
Commission .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, or relating to
health - adjective
clean and free frompathogens ;hygienic
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective free from filth and pathogens
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Just so you know, "sanitary" is code for "no men have touched these and we really don't want men to touch our products, ever."
BlogHer - Life Well Said debontherocks 2010
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Just so you know, "sanitary" is code for "no men have touched these and we really don't want men to touch our products, ever."
BlogHer - Life Well Said debontherocks 2010
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Just so you know, "sanitary" is code for "no men have touched these and we really don't want men to touch our products, ever."
BlogHer - Life Well Said debontherocks 2010
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People bring up the issue of "how sanitary is that?"
Health Care Policy for Pets, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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So UNDP is engaged in sanitary provisions, is engaged in building classrooms, dormitories.
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So UNDP is engaged in sanitary provisions, is engaged in building classrooms, dormitories.
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The secretary hired twelve cleaning women to maintain sanitary conditions.
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Comments you're my hero: sanitary is now what i will aim for! clean and neat didn't quite work, so i'll try sanitary now. i'm so the same when it comes to worrying that i might have possibly offended even a stranger!
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Irons in the Fire 2004
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We put in sanitary conditions - they hadn't them - we clothed them, got new beds.
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Again, women, and the best women, are wofully deficient in sanitary knowledge; although it is to women that we must look, first and last, for its application, as far as household hygiene is concerned.
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