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Synonyms for hearth

Grammar : Noun
Spell : hahrth
Phonetic Transcription : hɑrθ

Définition of hearth

Origin :
  • Old English heorð "hearth, fire," in transferred use "house, home," from West Germanic *hertho "burning place" (cf. Old Saxon and Old Frisian herth, Middle Dutch hert, Dutch haard, German Herd "floor, ground, fireplace"), from PIE *kerta-, from root *ker- "heat, fire" (see carbon).
  • noun a fireplace
  • noun home
Example sentences :
  • At the breakfast-table, comfortably near the hearth, sat Horace Milbrey.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • The hearth bore a uniform appearance, and did not seem to have been tampered with.
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • He certainly had warmed a snake on his hearth, and how was he to be rid of it?
  • Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • Seizing the lamp from the hearth, she hastened to the window that overlooked the street-door.
  • Extract from : « The Wives of The Dead » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • How it came, how it was passed from hearth to hearth, defied our penetration.
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
  • The sorrow Mr. Beaufort had not relieved was now at his own hearth.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • He sees the hearth in the middle and imagines the fire blazing there.
  • Extract from : « Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae » by Jennie Hall
  • Wearied, he deposited himself sulkily in an armchair by the hearth.
  • Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • His hearth was empty; and fire, his servant, was dead on earth.
  • Extract from : « Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew » by Josephine Preston Peabody
  • Was he to be told that, he wished to know again, by his own son on his own hearth, to his own face?
  • Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

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