Meaning

7 senses
  1. 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.

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

    cooking on an open hearth

    Feuerstelle, Herdboden, Grund

    оча́гočág, печу́ркаpečúrka, подpod

    во́гнищеvóhnyšče

  3. A fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.

    an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built

  4. The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.

    Feuerstelle, Gestell n in einem Hochofen

    дноdno, подpod, поди́наpodína

  5. A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.

  6. (figuratively)Home or family life.

    Herd, Herdstelle, Kochstelle

    семе́йный оча́гseméjnyj očág, дома́шний оча́гdomášnij očág

    home symbolized as a part of the fireplace

  7. (Germanic)A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.

Examples

12 sentences
  1. The firewood crackled in the hearth.

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  2. A woman is the guardian of the hearth.

    ruЖенщина - хранительница очага.

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  3. Vesta was the goddess of the hearth and home.

    deVesta war die Göttin von Heim und Herd.

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  4. He eats propolis near the hearth where an incandescent fire is burning.

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  5. He's eating propolis near the hearth where an incandescent fire is burning.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
floor of fireplace:
Русский
By meaning 3
floor of fireplace:
part of furnace:
home or family life:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
floor of fireplace:
part of furnace:
home or family life:

Origin

From Middle English herth, herthe, from Old English heorþ, from Proto-West Germanic *herþ,

From Middle English herth, herthe, from Old English heorþ, from Proto-West Germanic *herþ, from Proto-Germanic *herþaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“heat; fire”). Cognate with West Frisian hurd, Dutch haard, German Herd, Swedish härd. First attested in the Old English period.

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Forms

plural: hearths
Singularhearth
Pluralhearths

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • home symbolized as a part of the fireplace:fireside
  • an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room):fireside
  • an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built:fireplaceopen fireplace

Word family

21 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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