CHIMNEY CORNER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chimney corner mean? 

• CHIMNEY CORNER (noun)
  The noun CHIMNEY CORNER has 1 sense:

1. a corner by a fireplace

  Familiarity information: CHIMNEY CORNER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHIMNEY CORNER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A corner by a fireplace

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chimney corner; inglenook

Hypernyms ("chimney corner" is a kind of...):

corner; nook (an interior angle formed by two meeting walls)

 Context examples 

The carter seeing that he had thus lost all that he had, went down into his kitchen; and was still not sorry for what he had done, but sat himself angrily and sulkily in the chimney corner.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Little Em'ly had overcome her shyness, and was sitting by my side upon the lowest and least of the lockers, which was just large enough for us two, and just fitted into the chimney corner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)