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Heath
//hiːθ// name, noun
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Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
- 2 A surname.; Edward Heath, former British prime minister.
- 3 A male given name.
- 4 A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A village in Heath and Holmewood parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4466).
- 5 A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A hamlet in Leintwardine parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO3876).
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- 6 A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A hamlet in Abdon and Heath parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO5585).
- 7 A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A suburb of Stourbridge, Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO8983).
- 8 A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A small village in Warmfield cum Heath parish, City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3520).
- 9 A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A suburb, a community and ward in the City of Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST1780).
- 10 A number of places in the United Kingdom:; Hampstead Heath, a park in London.
""But it must be better still outside, though. They say thousands of people are out in the parks and on the Heath watching it all.""
- 11 A number of places in the United States:; A town in Covington County, Alabama.
- 12 A number of places in the United States:; An extinct town in Perry Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
- 13 A number of places in the United States:; A town in Franklin County, Massachusetts.
- 14 A number of places in the United States:; A township in Allegan County, Michigan.
- 15 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Fergus County, Montana.
- 16 A number of places in the United States:; A city in Licking County, Ohio.
- 17 A number of places in the United States:; A township in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.
- 18 A number of places in the United States:; A city in Rockwall County and Kaufman County, Texas.
Noun
- 1 A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland. countable, uncountable
"1. Where the place?/2. Vpon the Heath/3. There to meet with Macbeth"
- 2 a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation wordnet
- 3 Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. countable, uncountable
"There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front."
- 4 a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers wordnet
- 5 Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.; in Erica spp. countable, uncountable
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- 6 Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.; in Cassiope spp. countable, uncountable
- 7 Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.; in Daboecia spp. countable, uncountable
- 8 Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.; in Epacris spp. (Australian heath) countable, uncountable
- 9 Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.; in Leucopogon spp. (beard heath) countable, uncountable
- 10 Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.; in Phyllodoce spp. (mountain heath) countable, uncountable
- 11 Any butterfly or moth of species:; Coenonympha spp., a genus of brush-footed butterfly, of the palaearctic.; Coenonympha pamphilus, native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa, the small heath countable, uncountable
- 12 Any butterfly or moth of species:; Coenonympha spp., a genus of brush-footed butterfly, of the palaearctic.; Coenonympha tullia, native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America, the large heath countable, uncountable
- 13 Any butterfly or moth of species:; Melitaea athalia (heath fritillary) countable, uncountable
- 14 Any butterfly or moth of species:; Semiothisa clathrata (latticed heath) countable, uncountable
- 15 Any butterfly or moth of species:; Ematurga atomaria (common heath) countable, uncountable
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English heth, heeth, hethe, from Old English hǣþ (“heath, untilled land, waste; heather”), from Proto-West Germanic *haiþi, from Proto-Germanic *haiþī (“heath, waste, untilled land”), from Proto-Indo-European *kayt- (“forest, wasteland, pasture”). Cognate with Dutch heide (“heath, moorland”), German Heide (“heath, moor”), Norwegian hei (“heath”), Swedish hed (“heath, moorland”), Old Welsh coit (“forest”), Welsh coed (“forest”), Latin būcētum (“pastureland”, literally “cow-pasture”) -cetum (“place of, grove of”).
Etymology 2
English surname, from the noun heath.
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