MANTEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mantel mean? 

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

1. shelf that projects from wall above fireplace

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANTEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shelf that projects from wall above fireplace

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chimneypiece; mantel; mantelpiece; mantle; mantlepiece

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

shelf (a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects)

Holonyms ("mantel" 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 

Of course that is all that is expected of us when we are on mantels and cabinets and drawing-room tables, but our lives are much pleasanter here in our own country.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

A type of connective tissue consisting of an outer mantel of microfibrils and an amorphous elastin inner core capable of repetitive cycles of extension and recoil.

(Elastic Fiber, NCI Thesaurus)

One class overlapped conspicuously with genetic variation associated with schizophrenia in key (pyramidal) neurons of the brain’s outer mantel, or cortex, with likely cumulative effects on cellular structure and function, suggest the researchers.

(Schizophrenia risk gene linked to cognitive deficits in mice, National Institutes of Health)

The wide rooms seemed too narrow for his rolling gait, and to himself he was in terror lest his broad shoulders should collide with the doorways or sweep the bric-a-brac from the low mantel.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"But you are so beautiful," she continued, "that I am sure I could love you dearly. Won't you let me carry you back to Kansas, and stand you on Aunt Em's mantel? I could carry you in my basket."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)