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heath en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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”).

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
    • 1. Where the place?/2. Vpon the Heath/3. There to meet with Macbeth c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
    • These two stood in the corridor, waving till the last of the platform was out of sight; then they came into our compartment, and the woman cried a little. Soon she dried her eyes, and went back into the corridor, to have a last glimpse of her native heath. 1955 May, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “An Irish Journey—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 303:
  2. (countable, uncountable) Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
    • There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front. 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 258:
  3. (countable, uncountable) Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. ▸ in Erica spp.
  4. (countable, uncountable) Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. ▸ in Cassiope spp.
  5. (countable, uncountable) Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. ▸ in Daboecia spp.
  6. (countable, uncountable) Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. ▸ in Epacris spp. (Australian heath)
  7. (countable, uncountable) Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. ▸ in Leucopogon spp. (beard heath)
  8. (countable, uncountable) Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. ▸ in Phyllodoce spp. (mountain heath)
  9. (countable, uncountable) 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
  10. (countable, uncountable) 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
  11. (countable, uncountable) Any butterfly or moth of species: ▸ Melitaea athalia (heath fritillary)
  12. (countable, uncountable) Any butterfly or moth of species: ▸ Semiothisa clathrata (latticed heath)
  13. (countable, uncountable) Any butterfly or moth of species: ▸ Ematurga atomaria (common heath)

Forms

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Deriveds

Locks Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Coalpit Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · St Giles on the Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Brindley Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Copt Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Gillow Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · cushion heath (Nouns) · Balkan heath (Nouns) · heath grass (Nouns) · heath star moss (Nouns) · grass heath (Nouns) · heathless (Others (unsorted)) · Cheadle Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Heathfield (Proper nouns (place names)) · Hoath (Proper nouns (place names)) · heath fritillary (Nouns) · Holton Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Kings Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Small Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Thornton Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · true heath (Nouns) · heath-wren (Nouns) · Charing Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Cradley Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Squirrels Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · spike heath (Nouns) · Surrey Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Stockton Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · heathery (Others (unsorted)) · heath wren (Nouns) · Bromley Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · small heath Coenonympha pamphilus) (Nouns) · Stanton upon Hine Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Whitacre Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Bushey Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · tree heath (Nouns) · Lenham Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · West Heath (Nouns) · Washwood Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · winter heath (Nouns) · large heath (Nouns) · mountain heath (Nouns) · heath hen (Nouns) · Scotch heath (Nouns) · Parson's Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · twisted heath (Nouns) · fringed heath (Nouns) · Chadwell Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · No Man's Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · black heath (Nouns) · Short Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · heath bell (Nouns) · heath throstle (Nouns) · Blackheath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Fernhill Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Heath Town (Proper nouns (place names)) · chalk heath (Nouns) · red heath (Nouns) · bolster heath (Nouns) · Newton Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · coral heath (Nouns) · Irish heath (Nouns) · sea heath (Nouns) · South Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Ashley Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Bentley Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · cross-leaved heath (Nouns) · heathcropper (Others (unsorted)) · Brindle Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Hopton Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · heathwort (Nouns) · heath cock (Nouns) · cranberry heath (Nouns) · Whitmore Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · native heath (Nouns) · Heathrow (Proper nouns (place names)) · spring heath (Nouns) · heathwren) (Nouns) · common heath (Nouns) · Heathcliff (Others (unsorted)) · Heath End (Proper nouns (place names)) · dune heath (Nouns) · Flackwell Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · West Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Heath Green (Nouns) · heath spotted orchid (Nouns) · heath speedwell (Nouns) · Hothfield (Proper nouns (place names)) · blunt-leaf heath (Nouns) · Dickens Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Lydham Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · heath rush (Nouns) · sea-heath (Nouns) · Forest Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · heath aster (Nouns) · heath violet (Nouns) · heath pea (Nouns) · Burgh Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Heath Charnock (Proper nouns (place names)) · fine-leaved heath (Nouns) · Hounslow Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · French heath (Nouns) · Heath Green (Proper nouns (place names)) · Hampstead Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · heathen (Others (unsorted)) · heathclad (Nouns) · Donington le Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · heath-blue (Nouns) · heath cypress (Nouns) · Haywards Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · heath woodrush (Nouns) · Balsall Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Hyde Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · alkali heath (Nouns) · honeysuckle heath (Nouns) · heathland (Nouns) · cross-leaf heath (Nouns) · Gnosall Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Heath Hill (Nouns) · heathlike (Others (unsorted)) · prickly heath (Nouns) · Iver Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · Blindley Heath (Proper nouns (place names)) · latticed heath (Nouns) · heathy (Others (unsorted))

Synonyms

heather (shrub)

Translations (83)

sh pustara (type of land) · es brezal (type of land) · uk пу́стище (type of land) · ru пу́стошь (type of land) · eo erikejo (type of land) · bg изтравниче (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · tr funda (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · nl heide (type of land) · el θαμνότοπος (type of land) · hu puszta (type of land) · cs vřes (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · tr funda (type of land) · cs vřesovec (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · el ξερότοπος (type of land) · ru ве́реск (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · fi varpu (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · non lyng (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · de Heide (type of land) · fr bruyère (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · cmn 荒野 (type of land) · nds-de Heid (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · es páramo (type of land) · cy rhos (type of land) · got 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌸𐌹 (type of land) · nds-de Heidloo (type of land) · sv hed (type of land) · cs vřesoviště (type of land) · bg пирен (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · enm heth (type of land) · nl hei (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · it erica (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · sv hedmark (type of land) · nds-de Heid (type of land) · bg пу́стош (type of land) · fr bruyère (type of land) · it landa (type of land) · be пу́стка (type of land) · nrf lande (type of land) · ja ヒース (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · es brezo (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · hu hanga (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · fi nummi (type of land) · ca landa (type of land) · it brughiera (type of land) · el ρείκι (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · is lyng (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · grc ἐρείκη (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · pt charneca (type of land) · is heiði (type of land) · pt urze (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · fi kanervakasvi (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · gl torga (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · gl breixo (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · nl hei (type of land) · gl braña (type of land) · gl uz (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · cmn 荒地 (type of land) · oc landa (type of land) · pl wrzos (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · enm heth (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · hu pusztaság (type of land) · et nõmm (type of land) · no lyng (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · fr lande (type of land) · uk пу́стка (type of land) · eo eriko (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · ang hǣþ (type of land) · gd fraoch (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · sh vrijes (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · mk вресиште (type of land) · pl wrzosowisko (type of land) · hy հավամրգի (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · xcl երեկին (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · vo brüyäralän (type of land) · sv ljung (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · nl heide (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · be пустэ́ча (type of land) · oc bruga (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · sh vriština (type of land) · br lann (type of land) · gl bouza (type of land) · de Heide (shrub of the family Ericaceae) · gl queiroa (shrub of the family Ericaceae)