heath
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: heaths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1. Where the place?/2. Vpon the Heath/3. There to meet with Macbeth
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.
gloss: Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front.
gloss: Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any butterfly or moth of species:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any butterfly or moth of species:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any butterfly or moth of species:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any butterfly or moth of species:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any butterfly or moth of species:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: heather
Derived words: Heathcliff
heathcropper
heathen
heathery
heathless
heathlike
heathy
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: հավամրգի
roman: havamrgi
lang: Old Armenian
word: երեկին
roman: erekin
lang: Bulgarian
word: пирен
roman: piren
lang: Bulgarian
word: изтравниче
roman: iztravniče
lang: Czech
word: vřesovec
lang: Czech
word: vřes
lang: Dutch
word: heide
lang: Dutch
word: hei
lang: Esperanto
word: eriko
lang: Finnish
word: varpu
lang: Finnish
word: kanervakasvi
lang: French
word: bruyère
lang: Galician
word: uz
lang: Galician
word: breixo
lang: Galician
word: queiroa
lang: Galician
word: torga
lang: German
word: Heide
lang: Greek
word: ρείκι
roman: reíki
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἐρείκη
roman: ereíkē
lang: Hungarian
word: hanga
lang: Icelandic
word: lyng
lang: Italian
word: erica
lang: Japanese
word: ヒース
roman: hīsu
lang: Low German
word: Heid
lang: Middle English
word: heth
lang: Norwegian
word: lyng
lang: Occitan
word: bruga
lang: Old Norse
word: lyng
lang: Polish
word: wrzos
lang: Portuguese
word: urze
lang: Russian
word: ве́реск
roman: véresk
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: fraoch
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vrijes
lang: Spanish
word: brezo
lang: Swedish
word: ljung
lang: Turkish
word: funda