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Word entry · 5 letters

heath

Best crossword clue

"Open moor"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /hiːθ/Part of speech nounSorted aehhtStarts with HEnds with H2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • 1. Where the place?/2. Vpon the Heath/3. There to meet with Macbeth
  • There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front.
  • Edward Heath, former British prime minister.

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Open moor5 letters
02Open scrubland5 letters

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