name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Edward Heath, former British prime minister.
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Standard Lemma guide
heath
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Pronunciation
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name
Meaning 2
A male given name.
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Meaning 3
A number of places in the United Kingdom:
A village in Heath and Holmewood parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4466).
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Meaning 4
A number of places in the United Kingdom:
A hamlet in Leintwardine parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO3876).
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Meaning 5
A number of places in the United Kingdom:
A hamlet in Abdon and Heath parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO5585).
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Meaning 6
A number of places in the United Kingdom:
A suburb of Stourbridge, Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO8983).
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Meaning 7
A number of places in the United Kingdom:
A small village in Warmfield cum Heath parish, City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3520).
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Meaning 8
A number of places in the United Kingdom:
A suburb, a community and ward in the City of Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST1780).
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Meaning 9
A number of places in the United Kingdom:
Hampstead Heath, a park in London.
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Meaning 10
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Covington County, Alabama.
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Meaning 11
A number of places in the United States:
An extinct town in Perry Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
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Meaning 12
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Franklin County, Massachusetts.
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Meaning 13
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Allegan County, Michigan.
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Meaning 14
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Fergus County, Montana.
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Meaning 15
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Licking County, Ohio.
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Meaning 16
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.
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Meaning 17
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Rockwall County and Kaufman County, Texas.
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noun
Meaning 18
A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
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noun
Meaning 19
Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
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Meaning 20
Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
in Erica spp.
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Meaning 21
Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
in Cassiope spp.
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Meaning 22
Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
in Daboecia spp.
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Meaning 23
Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
in Epacris spp. (Australian heath)
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Meaning 24
Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
in Leucopogon spp. (beard heath)
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Meaning 25
Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
in Phyllodoce spp. (mountain heath)
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noun
Meaning 26
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
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Meaning 27
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
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noun
Meaning 28
Any butterfly or moth of species:
Melitaea athalia (heath fritillary)
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noun
Meaning 29
Any butterfly or moth of species:
Semiothisa clathrata (latticed heath)
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Meaning 30
Any butterfly or moth of species:
Ematurga atomaria (common heath)
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noun
Meaning 31
a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation
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Broader terms: barren, waste, wasteland
noun
Meaning 32
a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers
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Broader terms: shrub, bush
Narrower terms: erica, true heath, spike heath, Bruckenthalia spiculifolia, heather, ling, Scots heather, broom, Calluna vulgaris, white heather, Cassiope mertensiana, Connemara heath, St. Dabeoc's heath, Daboecia cantabrica, mountain heath, Phyllodoce caerulea, Bryanthus taxifolius, purple heather, Brewer's mountain heather, Phyllodoce breweri
History
Etymology
English surname, from the noun heath.
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”).
Across languages
Translations
83 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: пу́стка (pústka) — type of land
- Belarusian: пустэ́ча (pustéča) — type of land
- Breton: lann — type of land
- Bulgarian: пу́стош (pústoš) — type of land
- Catalan: landa — type of land
- Chinese Mandarin: 荒地 (huāngdì) — type of land
- Chinese Mandarin: 荒野 (huāngyě) — type of land
- Czech: vřesoviště — type of land
- Dutch: heide — type of land
- Dutch: hei — type of land
- Esperanto: erikejo — type of land
- Estonian: nõmm — type of land
- Finnish: nummi — type of land
- French: lande — type of land
- French: bruyère — type of land
- Galician: bouza — type of land
- Galician: braña — type of land
- German: Heide — type of land
- Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌸𐌹 (haiþi) — type of land
- Greek: θαμνότοπος (thamnótopos) — type of land
- Greek: ξερότοπος (xerótopos) — type of land
- Hungarian: puszta — type of land
- Hungarian: pusztaság — type of land
- Icelandic: heiði — type of land
- Italian: brughiera — type of land
- Italian: landa — type of land
- Low German: Heid — type of land
- Low German: Heidloo — type of land
- Macedonian: вресиште (vresište) — type of land
- Middle English: heth — type of land
- Norman: lande — type of land
- Occitan: landa — type of land
- Old English: hǣþ — type of land
- Polish: wrzosowisko — type of land
- Portuguese: charneca — type of land
- Russian: пу́стошь (pústošʹ) — type of land
- Serbo-Croatian: pustara — type of land
- Serbo-Croatian: vriština — type of land
- Spanish: páramo — type of land
- Spanish: brezal — type of land
- Swedish: hed — type of land
- Swedish: hedmark — type of land
- Turkish: funda — type of land
- Ukrainian: пу́стище (pústyšče) — type of land
- Ukrainian: пу́стка (pústka) — type of land
- Volapük: brüyäralän — type of land
- Welsh: rhos — type of land
- Armenian: հավամրգի (havamrgi) — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Old Armenian: երեկին (erekin) — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Bulgarian: пирен (piren) — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Bulgarian: изтравниче (iztravniče) — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Czech: vřesovec — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Czech: vřes — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Dutch: heide — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Dutch: hei — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Esperanto: eriko — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Finnish: varpu — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Finnish: kanervakasvi — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- French: bruyère — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Galician: uz — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Galician: breixo — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Galician: queiroa — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Galician: torga — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- German: Heide — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Greek: ρείκι (reíki) — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Ancient Greek: ἐρείκη (ereíkē) — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Hungarian: hanga — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Icelandic: lyng — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Italian: erica — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Japanese: ヒース (hīsu) — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Low German: Heid — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Middle English: heth — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Norwegian: lyng — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Occitan: bruga — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Old Norse: lyng — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Polish: wrzos — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Portuguese: urze — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Russian: ве́реск (véresk) — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Scottish Gaelic: fraoch — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Serbo-Croatian: vrijes — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Spanish: brezo — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Swedish: ljung — shrub of the family Ericaceae
- Turkish: funda — shrub of the family Ericaceae
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