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HEARTHSTONE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hearthstone mean?
• HEARTHSTONE (noun)
The noun HEARTHSTONE has 1 sense:
1. a stone that forms a hearth
Familiarity information: HEARTHSTONE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A stone that forms a hearth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("hearthstone" is a kind of...):
stone (building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose)
Holonyms ("hearthstone" is a part of...):
fireplace; hearth; open fireplace (an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built)
Context examples
"You are better, then. You may sit you down in my chair on the hearthstone, if you will."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
They found her afterwards by her own hearthstone, thrust through by a Frenchman's bill.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I could never rest in communication with strong, discreet, and refined minds, whether male or female, till I had passed the outworks of conventional reserve, and crossed the threshold of confidence, and won a place by their heart's very hearthstone.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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