Fireside

3 definitions found

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

  Fireside \Fire"side`\, n.
     A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or
     retirement.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  fireside
       n 1: an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out
            into a room); "they sat on the hearth and warmed
            themselves before the fire" [syn: {hearth}]
       2: home symbolized as a part of the fireplace; "driven from
          hearth and home"; "fighting in defense of their firesides"
          [syn: {hearth}]

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

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "fireside":
     ancestral halls, chimney, chimney corner, family homestead, fender,
     fire screen, fireboard, fireguard, fireplace, 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