Heath
name, noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 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
- 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.
Example
More examples"A heath is often created or expanded by fire, which prevents the growth of trees."
Etymology
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”).
English surname, from the noun heath.
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