Usually means: Fireplace base for building fires.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. hearth: Merriam-Webster
  2. hearth: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hearth: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hearth: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hearth: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hearth, hearth: Wordnik
  7. hearth: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hearth: Wiktionary
  9. hearth: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hearth: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hearth: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hearth, hearth: Dictionary.com
  13. hearth: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hearth: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hearth: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hearth: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hearth: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hearth: Rhymezone
  19. Hearth: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hearth: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. hearth: FreeDictionary.org
  22. hearth: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hearth: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. hearth: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. hearth: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hearth: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. hearth: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. HEARTH: Acronym Finder
  3. hearth: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hearth: Easton Bible
  2. Hearth: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Common Hearth and Heating Terms (No longer online)
  2. Hearth: Construction Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos, fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.
noun:  A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.
noun:  A fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
noun:  The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
noun:  A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.
noun:  (figurative) Home or family life.
noun:  (Germanic paganism) A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.

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