OPEN FIREPLACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does open fireplace mean? 

• OPEN FIREPLACE (noun)
  The noun OPEN 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: OPEN FIREPLACE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPEN 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 ("open fireplace" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "open 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 "open fireplace"):

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

Holonyms ("open 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 

As he spoke he put the money remaining into his pocket; took the title-deeds in the bundle as Harker had left them, and swept the remaining things into the open fireplace, where he set fire to them with a match.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was lined with books, and there were pictures and statues, and distracting little cabinets full of coins and curiosities, and Sleepy Hollow chairs, and queer tables, and bronzes, and best of all, a great open fireplace with quaint tiles all round it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)