hearth

«hearth» in Mova's school dictionary: the floor of a fireplace and the area just in front of… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a hearth, hearths)

meaning for a pupil

1) A hearth is the floor of a fireplace and the area just in front of it, where the fire burns. tree →

2) (literary) Hearth can mean home and family life, as in «hearth and home». tree →

sense in the lessons

In history lessons, the hearth was the centre of the home in the past: people cooked, kept warm and gathered there. In safety, keep toys, paper and clothes away from the hearth. In stories, sitting by the hearth means a cosy, safe, homely scene. Phrases: hearth and home, by the hearth, hearth rug.

examples

• The cat slept on the warm hearth. tree →
• Grandma swept the ashes from the hearth. tree →
• In Viking houses the hearth was in the middle of the room. tree →
• Keep the fireguard in front of the hearth. tree →
• The soldiers longed to return to hearth and home. tree →
• We hung our stockings above the hearth on Christmas Eve. tree →
• The cakes were smoking on the hearth. tree →

note

Say «harth»; in the UK it rhymes with «path», not with «earth». Do not confuse with «heart» or «earth», which look similar. Countable.

In the corpora

• And the hearth shall be four cubits; and from the hearth and upward there shall be four horns.
• And the hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square in the four sides thereof.
• For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hearth» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.