Usually means: Fireplace base for building fires.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. hearth: Merriam-Webster.com
  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: Free Dictionary
  22. hearth: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hearth: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. hearth: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. hearth: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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. hearth: Archaeology Wordsmith
  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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American English Definition British English Definition
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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