hearth
The place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for…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.
» The firewood crackled in the hearth.
Meaning
7 sensesThe 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.
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
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
The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
Feuerstelle, Gestell n in einem Hochofen
дноdno, подpod, поди́наpodína
A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.
(figuratively)Home or family life.
Herd, Herdstelle, Kochstelle
семе́йный оча́гseméjnyj očág, дома́шний оча́гdomášnij očág
home symbolized as a part of the fireplace
(Germanic)A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.
Examples
12 sentencesThe firewood crackled in the hearth.
A woman is the guardian of the hearth.
ruЖенщина - хранительница очага.
Vesta was the goddess of the hearth and home.
deVesta war die Göttin von Heim und Herd.
He eats propolis near the hearth where an incandescent fire is burning.
He's eating propolis near the hearth where an incandescent fire is burning.
Translations
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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: hearthsSynonyms
3 synonyms- 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