inglenook

Examples

• All

• After a long day, she found comfort in the inglenook with a book and a cup of tea.

• Now she remembered looking at her son on that long-ago day and seeing his freckled face as they sat across from each other in the old inglenook at one side of the sunny kitchen.

  Fiction book (2002)

• I live just a few yards from a street called The Causeway, in a small town in Old Blithy, where houses with Inglenook fireplaces are highly valued (although I have not seen it spelled 'neuk' yet), so there you are.

  Blog text (30)

• The children loved to play in the inglenook, creating a little fort with blankets and pillows.

Synonyms

N

nook

vsinglenook

40 3.0

A small sheltered corner where you can sit or read

is a cozy seating space beside a fireplace rather than any small corner

F

fireside

vsinglenook

4 3.2

The area in front of a fireplace where people sit to keep warm

is a smaller tucked seating space next to a fireplace

C

chimney corner

vsinglenook

• Archaic

1 6.3

A corner of a room next to a fireplace where people sit to feel warm

is a recessed built-in seating area beside a fireplace rather than a simple corner

H

hearthside

vsinglenook

• Archaic

6.5

A place by the fire where people sit and feel warm

is a specific cozy seating recess beside a fireplace rather than a general atmosphere

N

neuk

vsinglenook

• UK

9.9

A small quiet corner in a room where you can sit

is used for a small corner in general not necessarily beside a fireplace

Surface Forms

Etymology