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US
/ˈhɑɹθ/
]
[ UK /hˈɑːθ/ ]
[ UK /hˈɑːθ/ ]
NOUN
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home symbolized as a part of the fireplace
fighting in defense of their firesides
driven from hearth and home -
an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built
the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires
the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it
he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it -
an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room)
they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire
How To Use hearth In A Sentence
- Some lucky local with an open fire had determined the evening warranted a little extra cheer, more than the central heating could provide, and had lit a small blaze on his hearth.
- On an odometer basis, my perambulations around the hearthrug by rocking chair are infinitely more dangerous than an astronaut's wildest rides through space.
- Later that night, after he had carried her inside, he lay next to her on the hearthrug, listening to her breathe, not quite believing what had just happened.
- To the left the spacious drawing room includes a stone fireplace with matching hearth and log store.
- All of this was underpinned with ample confidence in the friendly disposition of much of the population-presumably loyalist at heart, simply waiting to welcome British military leaders to their hearthstones.
- There was a rocking chair that sat next to a fireplace, which held a medium sized cooking cauldron that was spilling ashes onto the burgundy hearthrug.
- There was no pony, no grass, no flowers, no bright-birded forest -- but the cottage of the wise woman -- and before her, on the hearth of it, the goddess-child, the only thing unchanged. A Double Story
- More reasons to be cheerful include more meals being made from fresh ingredients, a sign of the pleasures of home and hearth. Times, Sunday Times
- To the right, the drawing room is a spacious area with a raised fireplace with brass inset and white marble hearth.
- The room also features a brick fireplace with raised hearth and thick wood beamed mantelpiece, and is overlooked by a balcony which is accessible from the first floor.