different between hearts vs hearth

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h??(?)ts/
• Rhymes: -??(r)ts

Noun

hearts

1. plural of heart

Noun

hearts

1. (uncountable) One of the four suits of playing cards, in red, marked with the symbol ?.
2. (card games, uncountable) A trick-taking card game in which players are penalized for taking hearts and (especially) the queen of spades.

Related terms

• heart

Translations

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Verb

hearts

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heart

Anagrams

• 'sheart, Earths, Hartes, Hearst, Sarthe, Sather, Tahers, Tasher, earths, haters, hear'st, rehats, shetar

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

Yola

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