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FIREPLACE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built
Example:
the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires
Synonyms:
fireplace; hearth; open fireplace
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("fireplace" is a kind of...):
niche; recess (an enclosure that is set back or indented)
Meronyms (parts of "fireplace"):
fire iron (metal fireside implements)
fireside; hearth (home symbolized as a part of the fireplace)
hearthstone (a stone that forms a hearth)
chimneypiece; mantel; mantelpiece; mantle; mantlepiece (shelf that projects from wall above fireplace)
water back (water heater consisting of a tank or pipes set at the back of a fireplace or in the firebox of a stove)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fireplace"):
fire (a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning)
Holonyms ("fireplace" is a part of...):
chimney (a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building)
Context examples:
He tested how much of the garden was visible; he examined the floor, the ceiling, and the fireplace; but never once did I see that sudden brightening of his eyes and tightening of his lips which would have told me that he saw some gleam of light in this utter darkness.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When Mr Korbes came home, he went to the fireplace to make a fire; but the cat threw all the ashes in his eyes: so he ran to the kitchen to wash himself; but there the duck splashed all the water in his face; and when he tried to wipe himself, the egg broke to pieces in the towel all over his face and eyes.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The note was held out, and must be taken; and as she instantly and with averted eyes walked towards the fireplace, where sat the others, he had nothing to do but to go in good earnest.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
It was lined with books, and there were pictures and statues, and distracting little cabinets full of coins and curiosities, and Sleepy Hollow chairs, and queer tables, and bronzes, and best of all, a great open fireplace with quaint tiles all round it.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The first half-hour was spent in piling up the fire, lest she should suffer from the change of room; and she removed at his desire to the other side of the fireplace, that she might be further from the door.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I was carried into an inn, where the guard wanted me to have some dinner; but, as I had no appetite, he left me in an immense room with a fireplace at each end, a chandelier pendent from the ceiling, and a little red gallery high up against the wall filled with musical instruments.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The clock ticks over the fireplace, the weather-glass hangs in the hall.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
On the left was a large, deep fireplace, with a massive, overhanging oak mantelpiece.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“See that you keep yourself out of my grip,” he snarled, and hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the room.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here are four cigar-ends that I picked out of the fireplace.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
