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Synonyms for hearth

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    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.

Forms

Plural
hearths → fireplaces, firesides, homes, hearth-stones…

Example sentences

  • fireplace One step closer and you're going in the fireplace.
  • kindred Trade knows neither friends or kindred.
  • fireside The cat's asleep on the fireside rug.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
hearthsteady
fireplacerising
kindredfalling
firesidesteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
home1
7 letters
kindred2
8 letters
fireside3
9 letters
fireplace3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (kindred2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
âtre
Italiano
camino
Español
hogar
Deutsch
Kamin
Català
fogar