A heath (/ hiːθ /) is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and is characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground …

: any of a family (Ericaceae, the heath family) of shrubby dicotyledonous and often evergreen plants that thrive on open barren usually acid and ill-drained soil

Definition of heath noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

HEATH meaning: 1. an area of land that is not used for growing crops, where grass and other small plants grow, but…. Learn more.

Dec 21, 2025 · 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, …

A heath is an area of open land covered with rough grass or heather and with very few trees or bushes.

If you travel to England, you can drive out in the countryside to see the heath that you've read about in novels. An open, sandy field of low shrubs and scrubby plants like gorse and heather is called a heath.

heath /hiθ/ n. Ecology [countable] an area of open, uncultivated land. Plant Biology [uncountable] a low-growing shrub common on such land.

Any of various usually low-growing shrubs of the genus Erica and other genera of the heath family, native to Europe and South Africa and having small evergreen leaves and small, colorful, urn-shaped …

HEATH definition: a tract of open and uncultivated land; wasteland overgrown with shrubs. See examples of heath used in a sentence.