English Explanatory Dictionary

heath

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
  2. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
  3. in Erica spp.
  4. in Cassiope spp.
  5. in Daboecia spp.
  6. in Epacris spp. (Australian heath)
  7. in Leucopogon spp. (beard heath)
  8. in Phyllodoce spp. (mountain heath)
  9. Any butterfly or moth of species:
  10. Coenonympha spp., a genus of brush-footed butterfly, of the palaearctic.
  11. Coenonympha pamphilus, native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa, the small heath
  12. Coenonympha tullia, native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America, the large heath
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A male given name.
  3. A number of places in the United Kingdom:
  4. A village in Heath and Holmewood parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4466).
  5. A hamlet in Leintwardine parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO3876).
  6. A hamlet in Abdon and Heath parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO5585).
  7. A suburb of Stourbridge, Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO8983).
  8. A small village in Warmfield cum Heath parish, City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3520).
  9. A suburb, a community and ward in the City of Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST1780).
  10. Hampstead Heath, a park in London.
  11. A number of places in the United States:
  12. A town in Covington County, Alabama.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

heath heaths Haith

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”).

Synonyms

heather

Derived words

Heathcliff heathcropper heathen heathery heathless heathlike heathy alkali heath Balkan heath black heath blunt-leaf heath bolster heath chalk heath common heath coral heath cranberry heath cross-leaved heath cross-leaf heath cushion heath dune heath fine-leaved heath French heath fringed heath grass heath heath aster heath bell heath-blue heathclad heath cock heath hen heath cypress heath fritillary heath grass Heath Green Heath Hill heathland heath pea heath rush heath speedwell heath spotted orchid heath throstle heath violet heath woodrush heathwort heath-wren heath wren heathwren) Irish heath large heath latticed heath mountain heath native heath prickly heath red heath Scotch heath sea-heath sea heath small heath Coenonympha pamphilus) spike heath spring heath

Translations

Armenian: հավամրգի Old Armenian: երեկին Bulgarian: пирен Bulgarian: изтравниче Czech: vřesovec Czech: vřes Dutch: heide Dutch: hei Esperanto: eriko Finnish: varpu Finnish: kanervakasvi French: bruyère Galician: uz Galician: breixo Galician: queiroa Galician: torga German: Heide Greek: ρείκι Ancient Greek: ἐρείκη Hungarian: hanga Icelandic: lyng Italian: erica Japanese: ヒース Low German: Heid Middle English: heth Norwegian: lyng Occitan: bruga Old Norse: lyng Polish: wrzos Portuguese: urze Russian: ве́реск Scottish Gaelic: fraoch Serbo-Croatian: vrijes Spanish: brezo Swedish: ljung Turkish: funda
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