/hiːθ/
OriginFrom 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”).
- countable, uncountableA 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”
“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 t”
- countable, uncountableAny 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.”
- countable, uncountablein Erica spp.
- countable, uncountablein Cassiope spp.
- countable, uncountablein Daboecia spp.
- countable, uncountablein Epacris spp. (Australian heath)
- countable, uncountablein Leucopogon spp. (beard heath)
- countable, uncountablein Phyllodoce spp. (mountain heath)
- countable, uncountableCoenonympha pamphilus, native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa, the small heath
- countable, uncountableCoenonympha tullia, native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America, the large heath
- countable, uncountableMelitaea athalia (heath fritillary)
- countable, uncountableSemiothisa clathrata (latticed heath)
- countable, uncountableEmaturga atomaria (common heath)
- A surname.
- Edward Heath, former British prime minister.
- A male given name.
- A village in Heath and Holmewood parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4466).
- A hamlet in Leintwardine parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO3876).
- A hamlet in Abdon and Heath parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO5585).
- A suburb of Stourbridge, Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO8983).
- A small village in Warmfield cum Heath parish, City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3520).
- A suburb, a community and ward in the City of Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST1780).
- Hampstead Heath, a park in London.
“"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."”
- A town in Covington County, Alabama.
- An extinct town in Perry Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
- A town in Franklin County, Massachusetts.
- A township in Allegan County, Michigan.
- An unincorporated community in Fergus County, Montana.
- A city in Licking County, Ohio.
- A township in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.
- A city in Rockwall County and Kaufman County, Texas.
Formsheaths(plural) · Haith(alternative)