different between hearth vs hearthlike

English

Etymology

From Middle English herth, herthe, from Old English heorþ, from Proto-West Germanic *herþ, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“heat; fire”). Cognate with West Frisian hurd, Dutch haard, German Herd, Swedish härd.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /h???/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /h????/
• Rhymes: -??(?)?

Noun

hearth (plural hearths)

1. A brick, stone or cement floor to a fireplace or oven.

   • When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.

2. An open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.

   Synonym: fireplace

3. The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
4. A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.
5. (figuratively) Home or family life.
6. (Germanic paganism) A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Hertha

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Etymology

From Middle English herte, from Old English heorte, from Proto-West Germanic *hert?.

Noun

hearth

1. heart

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

hearth +? -like

Adjective

hearthlike (comparative more hearthlike, superlative most hearthlike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a hearth.
   • 2005, Max Jacobson, Murray Silverstein, Barbara Winslow, Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design

     Against the back wall, the piers gather together to form an incredibly solid fireplace, the most massive and hearthlike spot in the building.