heather
any of various heaths, especially Calluna vulgaris, of England and Scotland, having small, pinkish-purple flowers.
(of a yarn or fabric color) subtly flecked or mottled: all-cotton turtlenecks in your choice of five solid colors plus heather gray and heather green.
Origin of heather
1Other words from heather
- heathered, adjective
Words Nearby heather
Other definitions for Heather (2 of 2)
a female given name.
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How to use heather in a sentence
They were even considering sending Kooper and heather to Atlanta to live near one of the coaches he’d trained with.
The Lost Year: What the Pandemic Cost Teenagers | by Alec MacGillis, photography by Celeste Sloman | March 8, 2021 | ProPublicaHe described Kooper’s “protective loyalty,” how he once ran in from the outfield of a church softball game to confront someone who was having words with heather.
The Lost Year: What the Pandemic Cost Teenagers | by Alec MacGillis, photography by Celeste Sloman | March 8, 2021 | ProPublicaKooper would chat a bit with heather and then shower and get to work on the computer.
The Lost Year: What the Pandemic Cost Teenagers | by Alec MacGillis, photography by Celeste Sloman | March 8, 2021 | ProPublicaTo hear it now — after years of pain, work, doubt and determination — felt like a seal of approval from heather.
heather longed to rush to her, to hug her and touch her one last time, but she couldn’t.
‘I said goodbye to my sister through a computer screen’ | Holly Bailey | January 2, 2021 | Washington Post
Cal Poly Pomona student heather DeCosta described it as “kind of just boxing us in at all four sides of the street.”
Dispatch From USC Protests over Ferguson | Maya Richard Craven | November 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNo one cut the interview short and, as heather helpfully pointed out, “You are free to leave.”
Before Lehman, she told me in 2010, was a nine-year relationship with a guy with one leg: “My heather Mills,” Rivers called him.
Check out this fine sampling from the likes of Karen Shirely, Margalit Fox, and the most-talented, heather Lende.
In 2007, heather Mills—an amputee and alpine skier (and yes, the former wife of Paul McCartney)—danced on the show.
A little head suddenly appeared above the wet heather-bells, then as quickly disappeared, and all was again quiet.
The World Before Them | Susanna MoodieThis time he got to the tree, and placed his foot on a part of the root, while with his hands he clung on to a clump of heather.
Eric, or Little by Little | Frederic W. FarrarWith the dear Dominie's note promising to be an usher came an antique silver casket filled with white heather.
Penelope's Experiences in Scotland | Kate Douglas WigginThere is heather and wild thyme up the Trwyn, very comfortable to doze on; suppose we have our nap up there?
Mushroom Town | Oliver OnionsShe came lightly along towards the house under the livid sky with the heather on each side of her.
The Romance of His Life | Mary Cholmondeley
British Dictionary definitions for heather
/ (ˈhɛðə) /
Also called: ling, heath a low-growing evergreen Eurasian ericaceous shrub, Calluna vulgaris, that grows in dense masses on open ground and has clusters of small bell-shaped typically pinkish-purple flowers
any of certain similar plants
a purplish-red to pinkish-purple colour
of a heather colour
of or relating to interwoven yarns of mixed colours: heather mixture
Origin of heather
1Derived forms of heather
- heathered, adjective
- heathery, adjective
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