hearth
Definitions
- 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.
- 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.
Equivalents
Examples
“For by the hearth the children sit⟳ Cold in that atmosphere of Death, And scarce endure to draw⟳ the breath, Or like⟳ to noiseless phantoms flit: […]”
“cooking on an open⟳ hearth”
“When the flames at last⟳ began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find⟳ Miss⟳ Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log⟳ across the andirons.”
“To put⟳ it simply, he seems to me to be starting out to harm⟳ the city, from its very hearth, by setting out to wrong you.”
“Asatru is practised all over Northern Europe and also in North America. Like⟳ Druidry, it is organized into bodies with sub-groups, the hearths.”
“Smaller localized groups known as 'hearths' meet⟳ regularly, and are comparable, in size and function, with a Wiccan 'Coven' or Druidic 'Grove'.”
“Neopagan groups take⟳ many forms, from Wiccan covens to Druid groves, from Heathen hearths to magical lodges[…]”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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