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Definition: Heathland |
HeathlandNoun1. (British) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "heathland" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1878. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Geography | Shallow acid peat land. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Heathland plays host to a great profusion of wildlife including, in Britain, the Smooth Snake and the Sand Lizard. It is also an excellent habitat for ants with many species being restricted entirely to it.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Heathland."
Synonym: HeathlandSynonym: heath (n). (additional references) |
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| "Heathland" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.68% of the time. "Heathland" is used about 76 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 (singular) | 98.68% | 75 | 38,535 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.32% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 76 | N/A |
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| Language | Translations for "heathland"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | heideland (heath, moor land, moorland, wold), heide (gentile, heath, heathen, heather, moor, moorland, pagan). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eathlandhay fundalık (brushwood, Heath, scrub, shrubbery). (various references) | ||||||||||
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Words beginning with "heathland": heathlands. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-h-h-l-n-t" | |
-2 letters: lanated. | |
-3 letters: adnate, alated, althea, daleth, dental, halted, handle, hanted, hantle, health, lanate, lathed, thenal. | |
-4 letters: aahed, ahead, aland, alane, alant, alate, antae, anted, dealt, death, delta, eland, hadal, haled, hated, heath, laden, lated, laten, lathe, leant, naled, natal, neath, thane. | |
-5 letters: alae, alan, anal, anta, ante, dahl, dale, data, date, deal, dean, delt, dent, dhal, eath, elan, etna, hade, haed, haen, haet, haha, hale, halt, hand, hant, hate, hath, head, heal, heat, held, hent, heth, lade, land, lane, late, lath, lead, lean, lend, lent, nada, neat, tael, tala, tale, teal, tela, tend, thae, than, then. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-h-h-l-n-t" | |
+1 letter: heathlands. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 61 74 68 6C 61 6E 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .- - .... .-.. .- -. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101000 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e a t h l a n d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0061 0074 0068 006C 0061 006E 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)427167867478678070 |
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