Fireplace

Quick meaning: Fireplace is a noun meaning An open hearth for holding a fire at the base of a chimney.

Meaning

An open hearth for holding a fire at the base of a chimney.

Example Sentences

Opposite the old church is a Tudor black-and-white cottage, flanked at one end by the Brocket Arms, a splendid 400-year-old pub with stone-flagged floors, a vast inglenook fireplace and a garden full of oak tables and benches for summer evening meditation.

Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.

Word Forms

• fireplaces
• fire-place

Synonyms for fireplace

Depending on context, synonyms include hearthstead, hearth.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hearth, ingle, chimney, grate, mantelpiece, campfire.

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