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hether

hether is the obsolete spelling of heather.

hether is the obsolete spelling of hither.

hether is the obsolete spelling of helder.

Meaning of heather

Noun

heather (countable and uncountable, plural heathers)

  1. An evergreen plant, Calluna vulgaris, with spiky leaves and small purple, pink, or white flowers.
    • The cutting sides were gay with heather in bloom, and masses of dainty Scots bluebells, while patches of clear sky overhead were bringing life and colour to the sea.1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 9
    Synonyms:
    ling
  2. A plant in the family Ericaceae.
  3. Various species of the genus Erica.
  4. Various species of the genus Cassiope.
  5. A purple colour with a tint of pink and blue.
  6. The use of interwoven yarns of mixed colours to produce flecks.

See all 11 meanings of heather

Meaning of hither

Adverb

hither (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, literary) To this place, to here.
    • He went hither and thither.
  2. over here

See all 4 meanings of hither

Forms of hether

pluralhethers

Questions about hether

What is hether the obsolete spelling of?
Hether is the obsolete spelling of heather.

Words near hether in the dictionary

  1. hetfic
  2. Hetfield
  3. Hetfields
  4. hetgem
  5. heth
  6. hether
  7. Hetherington
  8. Hetheringtons
  9. hethers
  10. Hethersett
  11. Hethoumid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hether (page history and authors); heather (page history and authors); hither (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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