heath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːθ/
rhymes: -iːθ
Forms: form: heaths
Etymology: From Middle English heeth, heth, 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”).
Senses: examples: text: 1. Where the place?/2. Vpon the Heath/3. There to meet with Macbeth
ref: 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]:
text: 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.
ref: 1955 May, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “An Irish Journey—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 303:
glosses: A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
examples: text: There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 258:
glosses: Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
glosses: Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
in Erica spp.
glosses: Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
in Cassiope spp.
glosses: Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
in Daboecia spp.
glosses: Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
in Epacris spp. (Australian heath)
glosses: Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
in Leucopogon spp. (beard heath)
glosses: Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
in Phyllodoce spp. (mountain heath)
glosses: 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
glosses: 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
glosses: Any butterfly or moth of species:
Melitaea athalia (heath fritillary)
glosses: Any butterfly or moth of species:
Semiothisa clathrata (latticed heath)
glosses: Any butterfly or moth of species:
Ematurga atomaria (common heath)
Synonyms: sense: shrub
word: heather
Derived terms: sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Frankenia grandifolia
word: alkali heath
sense: Nouns
word: Balkan heath
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Erica cinerea
word: black heath
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Epacris obtusifolia
word: blunt-leaf heath
sense: Nouns
word: bolster heath
sense: Nouns
word: chalk heath
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Epacris impressa
word: common heath
sense: Nouns
word: coral heath
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Styphelia humifusum
word: cranberry heath
sense: Nouns
word: cross-leaved heath
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Erica tetralix
word: cross-leaf heath
sense: Nouns
word: cushion heath
sense: Nouns
word: dune heath
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Erica cinerea
word: fine-leaved heath
sense: Nouns
word: French heath
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Erica ciliaris
word: fringed heath
sense: Nouns
word: grass heath
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Symphyotrichum spp.
word: heath aster
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Erica spp.
word: heath bell
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Neolucia spp.
word: heath-blue
sense: Nouns
word: heathclad
sense: Nouns
word: heath cock
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Lyrurus tetrix
word: heath hen
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Diphasiastrum alpinum
alt: syn. Lycopodium alpinum
word: heath cypress
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Melitaea athalia
word: heath fritillary
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Danthonia decumbens
word: heath grass
sense: Nouns
word: heathland
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Lathyrus linifolius
word: heath pea
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Juncus squarrosus
word: heath rush
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Veronica officinalis
word: heath speedwell
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Dactylorhiza maculata
word: heath spotted orchid
sense: Nouns
word: heath throstle
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Viola canina
word: heath violet
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Luzula multiflora
word: heath woodrush
sense: Nouns
word: heathwort
sense: Nouns
word: heath-wren
sense: Nouns
word: heath wren
sense: Nouns
alt: Hylacola spp.
word: heathwren)
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Daboecia cantabrica
word: Irish heath
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Coenonympha tullia
word: large heath
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Chiasmia clathrata
word: latticed heath
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Phyllodoce caerulea
word: mountain heath
sense: Nouns
word: prickly heath
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Calluna vulgaris
word: red heath
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Calluna vulgaris
word: Scotch heath
sense: Nouns
word: sea-heath
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Frankenia laevis
word: sea heath
sense: Nouns
word: small heath Coenonympha pamphilus)
sense: Nouns
word: spike heath
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Erica carnea
word: spring heath
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Erica arborea
word: tree heath
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Erica spp.
word: true heath
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Erica cinerea
word: twisted heath
sense: Nouns
taxonomic: Erica carnea
word: winter heath
sense: Proper nouns
word: Ashley Heath
sense: Proper nouns
word: Balsall Heath
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word: Bentley Heath
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word: Blindley Heath
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word: Brindle Heath
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word: Bromley Heath
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word: Burgh Heath
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word: Bushey Heath
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word: Chadwell Heath
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word: Charing Heath
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word: Cheadle Heath
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word: Coalpit Heath
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word: Copt Heath
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word: Cradley Heath
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word: Dickens Heath
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word: Donington le Heath
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word: Fernhill Heath
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word: Flackwell Heath
sense: Proper nouns
word: Forest Heath
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word: Gillow Heath
sense: Proper nouns
word: Gnosall Heath
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word: Hampstead Heath
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word: Haywards Heath
sense: Proper nouns
word: Heath Charnock
sense: Proper nouns
word: Heath End
sense: Proper nouns
word: Heathfield
sense: Proper nouns
word: Heathrow
sense: Proper nouns
word: Heath Town
sense: Proper nouns
word: Hoath
sense: Proper nouns
word: Holton Heath
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word: Hopton Heath
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word: Hothfield
sense: Proper nouns
word: Hounslow Heath
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word: Hyde Heath
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word: Kings Heath
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word: Lenham Heath
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word: Locks Heath
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word: Newton Heath
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word: No Man's Heath
sense: Proper nouns
word: Parson's Heath
sense: Proper nouns
word: Short Heath
sense: Proper nouns
alt: toponym
word: Small Heath
sense: Proper nouns
word: South Heath
sense: Proper nouns
word: Squirrels Heath
sense: Proper nouns
word: Stanton upon Hine Heath
sense: Proper nouns
word: St Giles on the Heath
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word: Stockton Heath
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word: Surrey Heath
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word: Thornton Heath
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word: Washwood Heath
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word: Whitacre Heath
sense: Proper nouns
word: Whitmore Heath
sense: Others (unsorted)
word: Blackheath
sense: Others (unsorted)
word: Heathcliff
sense: Others (unsorted)
word: heathcropper
sense: Others (unsorted)
word: heathen
sense: Others (unsorted)
word: heathery
sense: Others (unsorted)
word: heathless
sense: Others (unsorted)
word: heathlike
sense: Others (unsorted)
word: heathy