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Hearth vs Fireplace - What's the difference?

hearth | fireplace |

Fireplace is a synonym of hearth.



As nouns the difference between hearth and fireplace

is that hearth is a brick, stone or cement floor to a fireplace or oven while fireplace is an open hearth for holding a fire at the base of a chimney.

hearth

English

(wikipedia hearth)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A brick, stone or cement floor to a fireplace or oven.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • 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 symbol for home or family life.
  • (lb) A household or group following the modern pagan faith of Heathenry.

    • Synonyms

    * (open recess at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built) fireplace

    Derived terms

    * hearth and home * hearthrug * hearthstone

    Anagrams

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    fireplace

    English

    (wikipedia fireplace)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An open hearth for holding a fire at the base of a chimney.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace , their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}