hearth
IPA: hˈɑrθ
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.
- A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.
- A fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
- The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
- A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.
- (figurative) Home or family life.
- (Germanic paganism) A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.
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Examples of "hearth" in Sentences
- The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth.
- Even lighting the hearth or bathing.
- Hestia is the Greek goddess of the hearth.
- A flagstone hearth is in front of the fireplace.
- There was a hearth at the center of the building.
- The Hearth Tax return for 1691 lists eleven hearths.
- The pipe is routed over the hearth and below the chimney.
- The hearth tax was a supplemental tax to make up the shortfall.
- Brown, sensuous in nature, represents an importance of hearth and home.
- The tail was rushed to the regia to have its blood drip on the hearth there.
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