Fireplace

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fireplace \Fire"place`\, n.
     The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; --
     usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be
     built.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fireplace
       n : an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a
           fire can be built; "the fireplace was so large you could
           walk inside it"; "he laid a fire in the hearth and lit
           it"; "the hearth was black with the charcoal of many
           fires" [syn: {hearth}, {open fireplace}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "fireplace":
     ancestral halls, chimney, chimney corner, family homestead, fender,
     fire screen, fireboard, fireguard, fireside, flue, foyer, hearth,
     hearth and home, hearthstone, hob, home, home place, home roof,
     home sweet home, homestead, household, hub, ingle, inglenook,
     ingleside, menage, paternal roof, roof, rooftree, smokehole,
     toft