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# heath

«heath» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large area of open, wild land with poor soil, covered…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a heath, heaths)

### meaning for a pupil

A heath is a large area of open, wild land with poor soil, covered with low plants like heather, gorse and grasses, and few trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heath/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and nature lessons, heaths are a habitat for special plants, insects, lizards, snakes and birds; they are common in the UK and Ireland and can catch fire easily in dry summers. In old stories and Shakespeare, a heath is a lonely, windy place where travellers meet strange things. Many places are named Heath, like Hampstead Heath in London.

### examples

- We walked across the heath where purple heather grew. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heath/#x1)
- Lizards bask in the sun on the heath. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heath/#x2)
- In dry weather, a campfire can start a fire on the heath. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heath/#x3)
- The wind blew hard across the open heath. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heath/#x4)
- In the story, the travellers met three witches on a lonely heath. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heath/#x5)
- Hampstead Heath is a big park in London. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heath/#x6)
- So they continued their journey across the rugged heath. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heath/#x7)

### note

Countable: heaths. Similar to a «moor», which is higher and often wetter. Do not confuse with «health» (being well) or «heat». Heather is the plant that grows on heaths.

### In the corpora

- [Toad: «The open road, the dusty highway, the heath, the common, the hedgerows, the rolling downs! ...](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart/27/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «heath» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heath/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.