heath
/hiːθ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.76 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front."
- "Edward Heath, former British prime minister."
- ""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.""
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”).
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alkali heath
Balkan heath
black heath
blunt-leaf heath
bolster heath
chalk heath
common heath
coral heath