Hearth

Quick meaning: Hearth is a noun meaning A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.

Meaning

A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.

More Meanings

1. A fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
2. The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
3. A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.
4. (figurative) Home or family life.
5. (Germanic paganism) A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.
6. 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.

Example Sentences

cooking on an open hearth

Neopagan groups take many forms, from Wiccan covens to Druid groves, from Heathen hearths to magical lodges[…]

To put it simply, he seems to me to be starting out to harm the city, from its very hearth, by setting out to wrong you.

Asatru is practised all over Northern Europe and also in North America. Like Druidry, it is organized into bodies with sub-groups, the hearths.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for hearth

Depending on context, synonyms include fireplace, fireside.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fireplace, fireside, ingle, chimney, crucible, stack.

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