hearth Synonyms & Antonyms
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Hearth as a Noun
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.
A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.
cooking on an open hearth
A fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.
Home or family life.
A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.
Hearth in a Sentence
cooking on an open hearth
Word Forms & Grammar
hearth (plural hearths)
Words That Rhyme With Hearth
Origin of Hearth
Origin 1: 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.
Origin 2: The modern spelling is from an Middle English/Early Modern English /hɛːrθ/, from earlier /heːrθ/, levelled from inflected forms with /rð/ where the vowel would have been lengthened.[1] The reflex of this pronunciation was preserved in obsolete dialectal /ˈhɜɹθ/.
Word Facts for Hearth
| Part of speech | noun |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | /hɛːrθ/ |
| Meaning | The place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually… |
| Plural | hearths |