Explore Heep through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Heep meaning
A surname.
Using Heep
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname.
- In the example corpus, heep often appears in combinations such as: uriah heep, heep is.
Context around Heep
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 2 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Heep
- In this selection, "heep" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, uriah, cleveland, villains, fame, addresses and hartmut stand out and add context to how "heep" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and uriah heep fame and becomes uriah heep through contact. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "heep" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with heep
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Author Philip Roth once compared President Richard Nixon to Uriah Heep. (11 words)
Heep has been employed as clerk to Wickfield for four years, since he was eleven. (15 words)
Heep is eventually stymied by Mr. Micawber and Tommy Traddles, with help from David and Agnes. (16 words)
When Mullan moves on to the author’s use of names, many of which – Pecksniffian, Scrooge, Uriah Heep – have embedded themselves in our language, he shows us Dickens’s notebooks in order, precisely, to catch his thought in the process of forming itself. (43 words)
A live album and DVD, both titled America: Live in the USA, were released in 2003, recorded at the Classic Rock Festival in Trenton, New Jersey in October 2002, which they co-headlined with Uriah Heep. (36 words)
Heep's father, who instilled in him the need to be humble, died when Uriah was ten, and for the first part of the novel he lives alone with his mother in their "'umble abode". (35 words)
Example sentences (14)
When Mullan moves on to the author’s use of names, many of which – Pecksniffian, Scrooge, Uriah Heep – have embedded themselves in our language, he shows us Dickens’s notebooks in order, precisely, to catch his thought in the process of forming itself.
It follows Cleveland Heep, an apartment complex superintendent who discovers a water nymph in the swimming pool, eventually coming to the realization that he and his neighbors are characters "acting out" a fairy tale.
A live album and DVD, both titled America: Live in the USA, were released in 2003, recorded at the Classic Rock Festival in Trenton, New Jersey in October 2002, which they co-headlined with Uriah Heep.
Asia's logo and cover art were created by illustrator Roger Dean of Yes and Uriah Heep fame.
Author Philip Roth once compared President Richard Nixon to Uriah Heep.
Heep addresses Copperfield as "Master Copperfield" well into their adulthood, an indication of his true patronising view.
Heep has been employed as clerk to Wickfield for four years, since he was eleven.
Heep is eventually stymied by Mr. Micawber and Tommy Traddles, with help from David and Agnes.
Heep's father, who instilled in him the need to be humble, died when Uriah was ten, and for the first part of the novel he lives alone with his mother in their "'umble abode".
In Jasper Fforde 's novel "The Well of Lost Plots", Uriah Hope becomes Uriah Heep through contact with the misspelling vyrus.
Like most Dickens villains, Heep is motivated mainly by greed, but in his character there is a commentary on the English class system.
Perhaps Dickens's impressions on his meeting with Hans Christian Andersen informed the delineation of Uriah Heep.
See also Stanley, Patricia H. "Rilke's Duino Elegies: An Alternative Approach to the Study of Mysticism" in Heep, Hartmut (editor).
That same year, two other British bands released debut albums in a heavy metal mode: Uriah Heep with Very 'Eavy..
Common combinations with heep
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- uriah heep 7×
- heep is 2×