hearth
pronunciation
How to pronounce hearth in British English:
UK [hɑ:θ]
How to pronounce hearth in American English:
US [hɑrθ]
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- Noun:
- an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built
- home symbolized as a part of the fireplace
- an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room)
Word Origin
- hearth
- hearth: [OE] Etymologically, hearth seems to mean ‘burning place’. It has been suggested that its West Germanic ancestor *kherthaz, which also produced German herd and Dutch haard, may be connected with Latin cremāre ‘burn’ (source of English cremate [19]) and Lithuanian kurti ‘heat’.=> cremate
- hearth (n.)
- Old English heorð "hearth, fireplace, part of a floor on which a fire is made," also in transferred use "house, home, fireside," from West Germanic *hertho "burning place" (cognates: Old Saxon and Old Frisian herth, Middle Dutch hert, Dutch haard, German Herd "floor, ground, fireplace"), from PIE *kerta-, from root *ker- (4) "heat, fire" (see carbon). Hearth-rug is from 1824. Hearth-stone is from early 14c.
Example
- 1. Brown speaks of home , hearth and a certain earthiness .
- 2. And there on the hearth , gaunt and unwelcome , stood a man .
- 3. Or in a hearth oven , such ovens are used for baking big rye-wheat or wheat products .
- 4. My own apartment appears to be closer to makno 's definition of acasa focolare , or hearth home , with some attributes of its wealthier relative , thecasa forum , or forum house .
- 5. Solomon gills was at first stunned by the communication , which fell upon the little back-parlour like a thunderbolt , and tore up the hearth savagely .