hearth

nouna fireplace
nounhome

Synonyms for hearth

noun a fireplace

chimney

noun. smokestack for building

Word Origin & History

Old English heorð "hearth, fire," in transferred use "house, home," from West Germanic *hertho "burning place" (cf. Old Saxon and Old Frisian herth, Middle Dutch hert, Dutch haard, German Herd "floor, ground, fireplace"), from PIE *kerta-, from root *ker- "heat, fire" (see carbon).

Example Sentences for hearth

At the breakfast-table, comfortably near the hearth, sat Horace Milbrey.

The hearth bore a uniform appearance, and did not seem to have been tampered with.

He certainly had warmed a snake on his hearth, and how was he to be rid of it?

Seizing the lamp from the hearth, she hastened to the window that overlooked the street-door.

How it came, how it was passed from hearth to hearth, defied our penetration.

The sorrow Mr. Beaufort had not relieved was now at his own hearth.

He sees the hearth in the middle and imagines the fire blazing there.

Wearied, he deposited himself sulkily in an armchair by the hearth.

His hearth was empty; and fire, his servant, was dead on earth.

Was he to be told that, he wished to know again, by his own son on his own hearth, to his own face?

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Synonyms for hearth

chimney

fire

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Synonyms for hearth

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