hearth
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5.5
- noun
- /hɑrθ/
:
hogar
- Golden Retrievers lying side by side on a stone hearth, year after year, their muzzles slowly turning white.
- a stone hearth
And so he's there, squatting on the hearth, making up the fire.
- And so he's there, squatting on the hearth, making up the fire.
- The apartment's most attractive feature was it's white marble Mantel and hearth where the Moors displayed their family heirlooms.
- When the spell was whole and woven, he said softly, GED not looking at the Falcon on the the hearth.
Examples
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For long minutes, we warmed ourselves by the welcome hearth and sipped gratefully from our smoking cups.
Fiction book (1990) -
It's nice to see a fire in this old hearth again.
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We have a little electric hearth in there, we could give you a cup of tea.
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So he built a stone hearth and a cabin around it.
Academic text (2004) -
A single lamp burned at the dining table; the fire in the hearth had gone out.
Fiction book (1991) -
And so he's there, squatting on the hearth, making up the fire.
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Catherine sank to her knees by the hearth, wrapping her arms around her head.
Fiction book (1993) -
Smoke drifted up from a black slate hearth to coil beneath the low black beams of the roof.
Fiction book (1992) -
Sometimes, by the end of the day, the drafty attic was too cold to spend the night in, so she lay by the dying embers of the hearth to keep warm.
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A warm fire blazes in the hearth of a cabin on the mountainside.
Synonyms
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1.0
An open space in a wall where you make a fire to heat a room or for decoration
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3.2
The area in front of a fireplace where people sit to keep warm
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7.9
A flat stone that forms the floor of a fireplace and the area in front
A fireplace in an old house where people burn wood to warm the room
A place by the fire where people sit and feel warm
Compounds
- Archaic
A large hot oven that makes steel by heating metal on a shallow bed with flames above
- Archaic
A way of making steel by melting iron and scrap metal in a large open furnace
How Portable
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hearth comes from an old English word heorþ that meant 'fireplace' or the stone floor where the fire burned. So today's hearth still means the area or floor in front of a fireplace.