fitness

CEFRB1

/ˈfɪt.nəs/

noun

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01
noun
The condition of being healthy and physically strong.
02
noun
Extra detail
An organism's or species' degree of success in finding a mate and producing offspring.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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A magazine on health and fitness
That's chiefly why they're coming; I want you to meet them here and then tell me frankly what you think of their fitness for whatever we decide on doing.
Carroll has been edging slowly towards full fitness after his expensive arrival from Newcastle United and his partnership with £23m Luis Suarez showed rich promise as Liverpool controlled affairs from start to finish.

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That's chiefly why they're coming; I want you to meet them here and then tell me frankly what you think of their fitness for whatever we decide on doing.
1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London
Having introduced my two characters separately, let me present them together. Why not? He, young, wealthy, honorable; she also young, also intelligent — why not bring them together? There is an eternal fitness in all things, and nothing more so than in the case of man and woman.
1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 5
Carroll has been edging slowly towards full fitness after his expensive arrival from Newcastle United and his partnership with £23m Luis Suarez showed rich promise as Liverpool controlled affairs from start to finish.
2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport

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From fit + -ness. First attested in the 16th century, with the physical sense from 1935.