What is another word for hearths?

Pronunciation: [hˈɑːθs] (IPA)

Hearths are a central part of any home and serve as the focal point of a room. Synonyms for hearths include fireplaces, chimneys, mantles, firesides, and grates. A fireplace is a structure made of brick, stone, or metal that contains a fire for heating a room. A chimney is a vertical structure that exhausts smoke and fumes from a fireplace or furnace. A mantle is a decorative shelf above a fireplace. A fireside is an area near a fireplace or fire pit. A grate is a metal frame or grid that holds fuel for a fire. These synonyms can be used interchangeably but provide a variety of ways to describe the same central feature of a home.

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Usage examples for Hearths

Of noble lords and ladies and their ways I know nothing, for do they not shut me from their homes and hearths when I would enter and warm myself?
"The Green Forest Fairy Book"
Loretta Ellen Brady
In the fall of 1913 Miss Shorte brought east with her a younger woman also from the school, to sing for her audiences those quaint "song-ballets" that sound around smoky mountain hearths to the accompaniment of banjo and "dulcimore."
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
When once Death has invaded our hearths and torn from us some dear object on whose existence our happiness depended, we lose all the confidence previously fondly and foolishly experienced in the stability of the blessings we enjoy, and not only deeply mourn those lost, but tremble for those yet spared to us.
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner

Famous quotes with Hearths

  • The normal process of life contains moments as bad as any of those which insane melancholy is filled with, moments in which radical evil gets its innings and takes its solid turn. The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony. If you protest, my friend, wait till you arrive there yourself! … Here on our very hearths and in our gardens the infernal cat plays with the panting mouse, or holds the hot bird fluttering in her jaws. Crocodiles and rattlesnakes and pythons are at this moment vessels of life as real as we are; their loathsome existence fills every minute of every day that drags its length along; and whenever they or other wild beasts clutch their living prey, the deadly horror which an agitated melancholiac feels is the literally right reaction on the situation.
    William James

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