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. — marafon
Vesta was the goddess of the hearth and home.
deVesta war die Göttin von Heim und Herd. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
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