English Dictionary

hearth

/hɑːθ/

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.

The warm glow of the hearth filled the room.

意味（1）

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.

意味（2）

A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.

cooking on an open hearth

意味（3）

A fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.

意味（4）

The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.

意味（5）

A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.

意味（6）

(figuratively) Home or family life.

意味（7）

(Germanic paganism) A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.

Asatru is practised all over Northern Europe and also in North America. Like Druidry, it is organized into bodies with sub-groups, the hearths.