Meaning

4 senses
  1. The area near a domestic fire or hearth.

    an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room)

  2. (broadly)One's home.

    home symbolized as a part of the fireplace

  3. (broadly)Home life.

    Kaminecke

    у ками́наu kamína

  4. (Mormonism)A supplementary meeting in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. The cat's asleep on the fireside rug.

    ruКот спит на коврике у камина.

    deDie Katze schläft auf dem kleinen Teppich vor dem Kamin.

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  2. The fireside evoked a pleasant warmth against the chill of mid-winter.

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  3. After he had finished his work, he would read and study by the fireside.

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
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Origin

From fire + side.

From fire + side.

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Forms

plural: firesides

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • home symbolized as a part of the fireplace:hearth
  • an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room):hearth

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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