salud
Americaninterjection
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
She was sick for a month and lost her job after she recovered, so she joined her mother as a promotora de salud with Visión y Compromiso.
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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