noun ·Moderate ·College level
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"For by the hearth the children sit Cold in that atmosphere of Death, And scarce endure to draw the breath, Or like to noiseless phantoms flit: […]"
"cooking on an open hearth"
"To put it simply, he seems to me to be starting out to harm the city, from its very hearth, by setting out to wrong you."
"Asatru is practised all over Northern Europe and also in North America. Like Druidry, it is organized into bodies with sub-groups, the hearths."
"In Victorian age, women were considered "Angels of the hearth"."
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.
Common synonyms include: ancestral halls, brood, center, children, chimney, chimney corner.
In Victorian age, women were considered "Angels of the hearth".
Pronounced /hɑːθ/.
From Middle English herth, herthe, from Old English heorþ, from Proto-West Germanic *herþ, from Proto-Germanic *herþaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“heat; fire”). Cognate with West Frisian hurd, Dutch haard, German Herd, Swedish härd.