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noun
The place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos, fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.
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noun
A fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
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noun
The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
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noun
A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.
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noun
Home or family life.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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noun
A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Germanic
Topics: lifestyle, paganism, religion
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noun
an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: fireplace, open fireplace
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Broader terms: recess, niche
Narrower terms: fire
noun
home symbolized as a part of the fireplace
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: fireside
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Broader terms: dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house
noun
an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: fireside
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Broader terms: area, country
History
From Middle English herth, herthe, from Old English heorþ, from Proto-West Germanic *herþ, from Proto-Germanic *herþaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerh3- (“heat; fire”). Cognate with West Frisian hurd, Dutch haard, German Herd, Swedish härd. The modern spelling is from an Middle English/Early Modern English /hɛːrθ/, from earlier /heːrθ/, levelled from inflected forms with /rð/ where the vowel would have been lengthened. The reflex of this pronunciation was preserved in obsolete dialectal /ˈhɜɹθ/.
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