Heath (redirected from Heath, Sir Edward (Richard George))

Heath  (hth), Sir Edward Richard George 1916-2005.

British politician who as prime minister (1970-1974) secured his country's entry into the Common Market (1973) and sought to offset high inflation by controlling wages, which led to a crippling miners' strike (1974).

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heath  (hth)

n.

1. Any of various usually low-growing shrubs of the genus Erica and related genera, native to Europe and South Africa and having small evergreen leaves and small, colorful, urn-shaped flowers. Also called heather.

2. An extensive tract of uncultivated open land covered with herbage and low shrubs; a moor.

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[Middle English, uncultivated land, from Old English hth; see kaito- in Indo-European roots.]

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heath

Noun

1. Brit a large open area, usually with sandy soil, low shrubs, and heather

2. a low-growing evergreen shrub with small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers [Old English hǣth]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	heath - a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers Ericaceae, family Ericaceae, heath family - heathers erica, true heath - any plant of the genus Erica Bruckenthalia spiculifolia, spike heath - small evergreen mat-forming shrub of southern Europe and Asia Minor having stiff stems and terminal clusters of small bell-shaped flowers Calluna vulgaris, heather, Scots heather, ling, broom - common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere Cassiope mertensiana, white heather - heath of mountains of western United States having bell-shaped white flowers Connemara heath, Daboecia cantabrica, St. Dabeoc's heath - low straggling evergreen shrub of western Europe represented by several varieties with flowers from white to rose-purple Bryanthus taxifolius, mountain heath, Phyllodoce caerulea - small shrub with tiny evergreen leaves and pink or purple flowers; Alpine summits and high ground in Asia and Europe and United States Brewer's mountain heather, Phyllodoce breweri, purple heather - semi-prostrate evergreen herb of western United States bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
	2.	heath - a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation heathland barren, wasteland, waste - an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert" Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom

Translations

heath [hiːθ] n (BRIT) → brezal m

heath [hiːθ] n (Brit) → lande f

heath [hiːθ] (Brit) n → Heide f

heath [hiːθ] n (BRIT) → landa