Hearth

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The floor of a fireplace, usually extending into a room and paved with brick, flagstone, or cement.
  • n. Family life; the home.
  • n. Metallurgy The lowest part of a blast furnace or cupola, from which the molten metal flows.
  • n. Metallurgy The bottom of a reverberatory furnace, where ore is exposed to the flame.
  • n. The fireplace or brazier of a blacksmith's forge.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A brick, stone or cement floor to a fireplace or oven.
  • n. An open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
  • n. The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
  • n. A symbol for home or family life.
  • n. A household or group following the modern pagan faith of Heathenry.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove.
  • n. The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.
  • n. The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. That part of the floor of a room on which the fire is made, or upon or above which a receptacle for the fire rests: generally a pavement or floor of brick or stone below an opening in the chimney, as in a fireplace.
  • n. The fireside; the domestic circle; the home.
  • n. In metallurgy: The floor in a reverberatory furnace on which the ore is exposed to the flame. See furnace.
  • n. The lowest part of a blast-furnace, through which the metal descends to the crucible. See furnace.
  • n. A bloomery.
  • n. Nautical, the grate and apparatus for cooking on board ship.
  • n. In soldering: An ordinary brazier or chafing-dish containing charcoal.
  • n. An iron box, about 2 feet by 1 foot 6 inches deep, sunk in the middle of a flat iron plate or table, measuring about 4 feet by 3 feet.
  • n. In glass manufacturing See flattening-hearth.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room)
  • n. home symbolized as a part of the fireplace
  • n. an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built
  • Equivalent
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    area    country    abode    domicile    home    dwelling    habitation    dwelling house   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    fireside   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Barth    Darth    Garth    garth    harth   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fireplace    stave    chimney    grate    oven    lamp    kitchen    altar    furnace    porch