heath

[US]/hiːθ/
[UK]/hiθ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. shrubby wasteland
adj. pertaining to plants of the heath family

Phrases & Collocations

heathland

Example Sentences

a vast Heath Robinson mechanism.

' Tis in the heath, but not furze.

the heath shrank figures to mere dots.

I slogged through the heather in the heat.

Marjorie and Heather spent hours poring over cookery books.

this type of heather grows better in a drier habitat.

A bird skimmed low over the heather.

CO.UK]Heathers From Kingfisher Nursery.Wholesale Heather Growers And Supplies.

For the film, Allen has written sketches starring Burt Reynolds, Heather MacRae, Lynn Redgrave and John Carradine as victims of everything from satyriasis to frigidity.

Real-world Examples

We will leave you with a song that brings us back to describing our heath.

Source: VOA Slow English - Word Stories

This summer Holland saw record-shattering heath and ice melt.

Source: VOA Standard English_Europe

Hampstead heath is home to many fine creatures.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

But the park—415,000 hectares of protected tropical heath forest and peat forest—is surrounded by oil-palm plantations.

Source: The Economist - International

I've been doing some training with them on how to help in a mental heath crisis. Ah that's excellent.

Source: BBC Listening Compilation April 2019

In the heath's barrenness to the farmer lay its fertility to the historian.

Source: Returning Home

The story begins on a barren Scottish heath where three witches are making their plans.

Source: Level 8 06.Shakespeare

A person on a heath in raiment of modern cut and colours has more or less an anomalous look.

Source: Returning Home

It was said that he came from the heath.

Source: Pan Pan

I passed the night under the shelter of a rock, strewing some heath under me, and slept pretty well.

Source: Gulliver's Travels (Original Version)

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