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salud

American  
[sah-looth] / sɑˈluð /

interjection

Spanish.
  1. (used after a person has sneezed or as a toast.)


Usage

What does salud mean? Salud is a Spanish word meaning “health.”For English speakers, it's most familiar meaning is for the toast Cheers!

Etymology

Origin of salud

Literally, “health”

Example Sentences

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Patients will work with a primary-care team that includes physicians, nurses and mental health therapists as well as a promotor de salud, or community health worker.

From Seattle Times Sep. 27, 2022

It can just be raising a glass and saying a single salud, it can be a speech you prepare beforehand, or it can just be some off-the-cuff thing you say.

From Salon Dec. 21, 2021

Locally, health workers in Spanish-speaking communities, known as promotores de salud, have had success easing anxieties about getting vaccinated, according to Kurt Organista, a professor of social welfare at U.C.

From Seattle Times Sep. 29, 2021

Now, Quintero stands on the front lines in the battle against the coronavirus — as a promotora de salud.

From Seattle Times Mar. 15, 2021

When they smile, The hands of old tins Touch their hearts And the viejos raise Their half-finished beers To the slosh of salud.

From "Neighborhood Odes" by Gary Soto

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