'Welfare' definitions:
Definition of 'welfare'
(from WordNet)
noun
Governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need; "she lives on welfare" [syn: social welfare, welfare, public assistance]
noun
Something that aids or promotes well-being; "for the benefit of all" [syn: benefit, welfare]
noun
A contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous; "the town was finally on the upbeat after our recent troubles" [syn: wellbeing, well-being, welfare, upbeat, eudaemonia, eudaimonia] [ant: ill-being]
Definition of 'Welfare'
From: GCIDE
- Welfare \Wel"fare`\, n. [Well + fare to go, to proceed, to happen.] Well-doing or well-being in any respect; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; exemption from any evil or calamity; prosperity; happiness. [1913 Webster]
- How to study for the people's welfare. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- In whose deep eyes Men read the welfare of the times to come. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'welfare'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ADC,
- advantage,
- affluence,
- aid,
- alimony,
- allotment,
- allowance,
- almsgiving,
- altruistic,
- annuity,
- assistance,
- avail,
- bed of roses,
- behalf,
- behoof,
- beneficent,
- benefit,
- benevolent,
- benison,
- bighearted,
- blessing,
- boon,
- bounty,
- charitable,
- child welfare,
- clover,
- comfort,
- commonweal,
- contentment,
- cradle-to-grave security,
- depletion allowance,
- dole,
- ease,
- easy circumstances,
- Easy Street,
- eleemosynary,
- felicity,
- fellowship,
- financial assistance,
- fleshpots,
- fortune,
- freehearted,
- gain,
- generous,
- good,
- gracious life,
- gracious living,
- grant,
- grant-in-aid,
- greathearted,
- guaranteed annual income,
- guaranteed income,
- happiness,
- health insurance,
- help,
- humanitarian,
- interest,
- lap of luxury,
- largehearted,
- life of ease,
- loaves and fishes,
- luck,
- luxury,
- Medicaid,
- Medicare,
- old-age assistance,
- old-age insurance,
- pecuniary aid,
- pension,
- philanthropic,
- price support,
- profit,
- prosperity,
- prosperousness,
- public assistance,
- public welfare,
- relief,
- retirement benefits,
- satisfaction,
- scholarship,
- security,
- sickness insurance,
- social insurance,
- social security,
- social service,
- social welfare,
- social work,
- socialized medicine,
- state medicine,
- stipend,
- subsidization,
- subsidy,
- subvention,
- success,
- support,
- tax benefit,
- the affluent life,
- the good life,
- thriving condition,
- unemployment compensation,
- unemployment insurance,
- upward mobility,
- velvet,
- weal,
- wealth,
- welfare aid,
- welfare capitalism,
- welfare payments,
- welfare state,
- welfare statism,
- welfare statist,
- welfare work,
- welfarism,
- welfarist,
- well-being,
- womb-to-tomb security,
- world of good