EMBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ember mean? 

• EMBER (noun)
  The noun EMBER has 1 sense:

1. a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering

  Familiarity information: EMBER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

coal; ember

Hypernyms ("ember" is a kind of...):

fragment (a piece broken off or cut off of something else)

 Context examples 

In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"Many are extreme in terms of intensity. Higher-intensity fires cause deeper plumes, which can help spread fires by lofting embers and causing spot fires.

(Researchers discover how wildfires create their own weather, National Science Foundation)

He had risen to his feet, and his eyes glowed like embers.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The iron fire-basket was carried bodily out by Mr. Trelawney, and the embers smothered among sand.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He it is who stirs up strife, and forever blows the dying embers into flame.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When he came back he fanned the embers of his fire again and warmed himself.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He carefully stirred up the embers of his lost love, but they refused to burst into a blaze.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I blew up the embers (we had not yet arranged a winter kitchen), and quite feverishly cooked the breakfast.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He could suit himself to his company, too, for on the one hand he could take his wine with the vicar, or with Sir James Ovington, the squire of the parish; while on the other he would sit by the hour amongst my humble friends down in the smithy, with Champion Harrison, Boy Jim, and the rest of them, telling them such stories of Nelson and his men that I have seen the Champion knot his great hands together, while Jim’s eyes have smouldered like the forge embers as he listened.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)