Heather

Definitions: Heather

Heather

Noun

1. Common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere.

2. Interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted grayish shades with flecks of color.

"Heather" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the heather".

Date "heather" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Synonyms: Heather

Synonyms: broom (n), heather mixture (n), ling (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Heather

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Plain	Meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather; lea, ley, lay; grounds; maidan, agostadero.
Vegetable	Bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva, mold; growth; alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan; blow, blowth; floret, petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Heather

English words defined with "heather": beach heather, bell heather, Brewer's mountain heather ♦ false heather ♦ golden heather ♦ Hadder, heather bell, heather mixture, Heathery ♦ Ling honey ♦ Moor, moorland ♦ purple heather ♦ Rosland ♦ Scots heather ♦ white heather. (references)

Specialty definitions using "heather": Dyot Street ♦ Heather Bells ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal. (references)

Etymologies containing "heather": Hadder, Hypericum. (references)

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Modern Usage: Heather

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Oh Heather baby! (American Pie 2; writing credit: Adam Herz; David H. Steinberg)
Lyrics	Can Heather find a job that won't interfere with her tan? ("Graduation (Friends Forever)"; performing artist: Vitamin C)
Movie/TV Titles	Guns in the Heather (1968) Heather and Yon (1944) Flame in the Heather (1935) Wee Hoose Among the Heather (1931) Wild Heather (1921)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Heather

Domain	Title
Books	A Hint of Heather (reference) Beyond the Heather Hills (reference) Heather and Velvet (reference) Heather Has Two Mommies (reference) Heaven and the Heather (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Heather News (reference) Heather Society Bulletin (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Playboy: Video Centerfold, Playmate of the Year 1999 - Heather Kozar (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Consumer Goods	Baby Jockey Heather Boxer Short Set - Large (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Heather

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Photo Album: Heather

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Staff Sgt. Heather Ifill, 51st Medical Group.		Mike Gonzalez (right), NRCS discusses the health of this year's heather crop with Salinas, CA, area growers. [Slide 97CS2988].Credit: Bob Nichols.
	[Arthur J. Heather, M.D. (left), and Charles Daniels].Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Steam yacht White Heather.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Heather

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry	Well Heather is the one that started it, and we started adding our scarves as well, to make a fire, so the helicopter could see us better.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Heather

"Heather" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 61.17% of the time. "Heather" is used about 908 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	61.17%	555	11,253
Noun (singular)	38.83%	353	15,179
Total	100.00%	908	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Heather

The following table summarizes the usage of "heather" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Heather	First name Female	337,000	53
Heather	Last name	400	19,155
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Heather

"Heather" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the heather".

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "heather".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Heather	Female	English	The heather
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: Heather

Expressions using "heather": beach heather ♦ bell heather ♦ Brewer's mountain heather ♦ false heather ♦ golden heather ♦ heather bell ♦ heather blindness ♦ heather mixture ♦ purple heather ♦ Scots heather ♦ take to the heather ♦ white heather. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "heather": heather-ale, heather-bell, heather-blue, heather-clad, heather-coloured, heather-covered, heather-dominant, heather-filled, heather-mixture, heather-moors, heather-perfumed, heather-roots, heather-thick.
	Ending with "heather": pine-and-heather.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Heather

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
heather graham	2,933
heather	2,055
heather kozar	1,787
heather locklear	1,759
heather headley	1,607
heather hunter	920
brooke heather	738
heather graham nude	666
headly heather	552
heather thomas	467
heather carolin	374
heather o rourke	358
heather lee	316
christensen heather	304
heather mill	265
heather spytek	254
hanson heather	244
heather nova	231
heather locklear nude	170
heather mitts	169
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Heather

Language		Translations for "heather"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Shqopë (briar, Heath). (various references)

Arabic		‏مرقط, ‏خلنج نبات. (various references)

Bulgarian		Пирен (Heath, Ling). (various references)

Chinese		石南属植物, 石南屬 . (various references)

Czech		Vřesovec (Heath), Vřes (briar, brier, Heath, heath-bell). (various references)

Danish		hedelyng (ling). (various references)

Dutch		struikheide (ling). (various references)

Esperanto		eriko. (various references)

Finnish		kanerva (ling). (various references)

French		callune fausse-bruyère, bruyère commune, Bruyère (heath). (various references)

German		Heidekraut (heath, Ling), Heide (gentile, heath, heathen, heathland, moor, moorland, pagan). (various references)

Greek		καλούνα η κοινή (ling), Ερείκη (Heath), Ρείκι (Heath). (various references)

Hebrew		ְברש. (various references)

Hungarian		Hanga (briar, brier, heath). (various references)

Irish		fraoch. (various references)

Italian		Erica (briar, Heath). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		プロ野球 (10^2, hair, hair band, hair care, hair cream, hair curler, hair dresser, hair dryer, hair liquid, hair manicure, hair oil, hair spray, hairbrush, hairdye, hairpiece, hairpin curve, hairstyle, haste, header, heading, hectare, hecto-, hectopascal, hedge, hedgehog, hedging, hegemony, intense smell, professional baseball, state of being furious or angry). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ヘザー . (various references)

Korean		히스속의 식물. (various references)

Manx		freoagh (ling). (various references)

Norwegian		lyng. (various references)

Pig Latin		eatherhay

Portuguese		O Deus Pã (pan), Estorga. (various references)

Romanian		Buruianã (good for nothing, Heath, herb, plant, rogue, vegetable, weed). (various references)

Russian		�'ереск (Heath). (various references)

Scottish		fraoch (heath). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vres (heath, ling). (various references)

Spanish		Brezo (briar, Heath, Ling). (various references)

Swedish		ljung (ling). (various references)

Turkish		Süpürgeotu (briar, brier, Heath), Funda (briar, brier, Heath, shrub). (various references)

Ukranian		�'ерес (Heath, Ling). (various references)

Vietnamese		trốn v� o rừng l� m nghề ăn cướp. (various references)

Welsh		grug. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Heather

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Calluna vulgaris Hull. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Heather

Derivations
	Words beginning with "heather": heathers, heathery. (additional references)
	Words ending with "heather": sheather. (additional references)
	Words containing "heather": sheathers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Heather" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beather, deather, eather, Hathar, hathe, hather, healthers, hethel, hether, heuchter, heuhera, Heythorp, regather, seather, teather, theather, wheather. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Heather"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "heather" (pronounced he"ther)
3	-e" th er	altogether, feather, leather, Nether, tether, together, weather, whether.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Heather

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-h-r-t"
	-1 letter: aether, hearth, heater, hereat, reheat.
	-2 letters: arete, earth, eater, ether, hater, heart, heath, rathe, there, three.
	-3 letters: eath, haet, hare, hart, hate, hath, hear, heat, here, heth, rate, rath, rete, rhea, tahr, tare, tear, thae, thee, tree.
	-4 letters: are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, ere, eta, eth, hae, hah, hat, heh, her, het, rah, rat, ree, ret, tae, tar, tea, tee, the.
	-5 letters: ae, ah, ar, at, eh, er, et, ha, he, re, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-h-r-t"
	+1 letter: heathers, heathery, heathier, sheather.
	+2 letters: healthier, heartache, sheathers.
	+3 letters: earthshine, hatcheries, headhunter, heartaches, thearchies.
	+4 letters: bathysphere, earthshaker, earthshines, featherhead, halfhearted, hardhearted, headhunters, hearthstone, hemihydrate, heptarchies, hexahydrate, housefather, therewithal, thunderhead, unhealthier, wherewithal, whitewasher.
	+5 letters: amphitheater, bathyspheres, chemotherapy, earthshakers, ethnographer, featherheads, featherlight, hearthstones, heavyhearted, hectographed, hemichordate, hemihydrated, hemihydrates, hexahydrates, housefathers, hyperthermia, lighthearted, phanerophyte, phenanthrene, phreatophyte, thermohaline, thunderheads, tracheophyte, wherewithals, whitewashers, wholehearted.
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