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Hearth vs Hearthless - What's the difference?

hearth | hearthless |

As a noun hearth

is a brick, stone or cement floor to a fireplace or oven.

As an adjective hearthless is

without a hearth.

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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    hearthless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without a hearth.
  • * 2005 , Axel von Starck, Alfred Mühlbauer, Carl Kramer, Handbook of thermoprocessing technologies (page 407)
    • For this reason, a hearthless pusher-type furnace has been developed.
  • (figuratively, by extension) Without a home.
  • * 1906 , Henry Watterson, The compromises of life (page 343)
    • It was not a singer of the fireside, but a hearthless wanderer, who put in all hearts the Anglo-Saxon's simple "Home, Sweet Home."