Synonyms:
fireplace, hearth, open_fireplace
Meaning: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built; "the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it"; "he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it"; "the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires"
Synonyms:
hearth, fireside
Meaning: home symbolized as a part of the fireplace; "driven from hearth and home"; "fighting in defense of their firesides"
Usage examples
The hearth is desolate.
Staunch Cricket on the Hearth!
They talked the matter over bitterly at the kitchen hearth that night.
It was a cheerful company of conspirators that now gathered around the big hearth.
Her feet were stretched out toward a small fire that smouldered in an open hearth.
Tom was singing on the hearth, but he had laid aside the wrap--it was nowhere to be seen.
They agreed to this and Ojo found some brushwood in the cabin and made a fire on the hearth.
In the ancient walnut chair by the hearth sat the old, old lady who had told them to bring the chairs.
Ransford turned quickly from the hearth and gave her a sharp look, beneath which her colour heightened.
The dawn is up--the guest is gone, The cottage hearth is blazing still; Heaven pity all poor wanderers lone!