heath
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7.2
- noun
- /hiːθ/
- UK
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heath
- The rolling English landscape gave way to expanses of heath, dotted with low shrubs and coarse grasses.
- blasted heath
When King Lear is on the heath, going mad, blow wins, crack your cheeks, you know, and he goes crazy.
- When King Lear is on the heath, going mad, blow wins, crack your cheeks, you know, and he goes crazy.
Examples
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Do they have heaths in Spain?
Fiction book (1992) -
Having received your letter, I am up again, walking our paths on the heath.
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That one runs through the heath and under your school.
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Tell them about that thing you saw on the heath.
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"Long wild walks on the heath," as one of the older serving people described it.
Fiction book (1990) -
Max, let's go to the heath and pick mushrooms.
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This isn't a stroll on the heath.
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Then the breeze blew the great sheet out; and over the edge, he surveyed the landscape - flowing fields, heath, and woods.
Fiction book (1993) -
In most places, the mix of grasses, shrubs, heath, and bare soil is apparent at the landscape level.
Academic text (2008) -
A brisk walk through Hampstead Heath is enough to revive any weary tourist, and a stroll to the top of Parliament Hill is always rewarding.
Blog text (11)
Synonyms
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5.8
An open area of wild land with low plants like heather and moss
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7.4
Open wild land that has wet, dark soil and low plants like heather
Open land with low bushes like heather and poor sandy soil
Compounds
- Australian
A small upright shrub from Australia and Tasmania with fragrant white flowers
- Australian
A small upright bush from Australia and Tasmania with sweet-smelling, colorful flowers
A small bush with pink or white flowers that grows on moors in Cornwall and southwest Europe
A small European shrub with pink bell-shaped flowers and leaves in groups of four
- Australian
A low bush with bright red flowers and small edible fruits like cranberries
A low shrub with thin leaves and purple-red flowers that grows on open, poor soil
A small evergreen shrub with tiny leaves and pink or purple flowers that grows on high mountain slopes
- Specialized
A group of flowering plants like blueberries or rhododendrons that grow in acidic soil
- US
A large wild bird like a prairie chicken that lived in eastern North America and is now extinct
- Australian
A small shrub with pink to rosy purple tube-shaped flowers that grows in southern and western Australia
An evergreen shrub with dense leaves and small pink or white bell-shaped flowers
A dense upright shrub with many white or pink flowers that grows naturally in western Spain and Portugal
A small evergreen shrub that grows flat like a mat with stiff stems and small bell-shaped flowers
A low bush that keeps its leaves all year and has white to pink-purple flowers
How Wild
Surface Forms
Etymology
Heath comes from an old English word hæth meaning 'land not used for farming'. Think of wide open ground covered with low shrubs and purple heather flowers; that's a heath, and the name fits because the plants and the place belong together.