FIREPLACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fireplace mean? 

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

1. an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIREPLACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

fireplace; hearth; open fireplace

Context example:

the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires

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

niche; recess (an enclosure that is set back or indented)

Meronyms (parts of "fireplace"):

fire iron (metal fireside implements)

fireside; hearth (home symbolized as a part of the fireplace)

hearthstone (a stone that forms a hearth)

chimneypiece; mantel; mantelpiece; mantle; mantlepiece (shelf that projects from wall above fireplace)

water back (water heater consisting of a tank or pipes set at the back of a fireplace or in the firebox of a stove)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fireplace"):

fire (a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning)

Holonyms ("fireplace" is a part of...):

chimney (a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building)

 Context examples 

Over the fireplace was a magnificent trophy of weapons, one of which had been used on that tragic night.

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

Mr. Spenlow shut the door, motioned me to a chair, and stood on the hearth-rug in front of the fireplace.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Well, it must be the creature who lives in the only comfortable room in the place, and has her photograph above his fireplace.

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

“I think that this should do,” said he, glancing into the glass above the fireplace.

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

Then with the wisp he rubbed all over the jamb of the door, above, below, and at each side, and round the fireplace in the same way.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There’s another walker there, the man with a flowered vest standing near the fireplace.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Don't use a heating pad, heat lamp, or the heat of a stove, fireplace, or radiator for warming. Since frostbite makes an area numb, you could burn it.

(Frostbite, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

If the room has a fireplace set with a brilliant fire, the atmosphere will be complete.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“Then read this,” quoth Sir Nigel, pointing upwards to one of the many quarterings which adorned the wall over the fireplace.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not tables, toilettes, wardrobes, or drawers, but on one side perhaps the remains of a broken lute, on the other a ponderous chest which no efforts can open, and over the fireplace the portrait of some handsome warrior, whose features will so incomprehensibly strike you, that you will not be able to withdraw your eyes from it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)