Plural of heath
regular plural
The plural of heath is heaths.
Forms of heath
| Singular | heath /hiːθ/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | heaths |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Heaths in a sentence
- During the first part of the oligocratic stage, leaching of brown soils produces acid podzols that favour coniferous woodlands and heaths.2004, Richard John Huggett, Fundamentals of Biogeography, page 319. From the entry coniferous
- As Will o’ the Wisp, the ignis fatuus, an imp would pixy-lead men on heaths and deserted places late at night.1950, Herbert Spencer Robinson, Knox Wilson, Myths and Legends of All Nations, New York: Bantam Books, page 245. From the entry pixy-lead
- A supernatural terror brooded over the trackless heaths, the dark mere pools were inhabited by the water elves.1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 3. From the entry mere pool
- There the high treeless steppe of short grass surrounds arid depressions or salt-pans with the usual carpet of low, fleshy salt-bushes and heaths of tamarixes.1913, Marcel E. Hardy, An Introduction to Plant Geography (Oxford geographies), Clarendon Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 177. From the entry tamarix
Meaning of heath
- noun A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
- noun Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
- noun In Erica spp.
Questions about the plural of heath
- What is the plural of heath?
- The plural of heath is heaths.
- Is heath countable?
- Heath is a countable and uncountable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: heath (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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