fireside

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

fireside
    n 1: an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out
         into a room); "they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves
         before the fire" [syn: {hearth}, {fireside}]
    2: home symbolized as a part of the fireplace; "driven from
       hearth and home"; "fighting in defense of their firesides"
       [syn: {hearth}, {fireside}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Fireside \Fire"side`\, n.
   A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or
   retirement.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

31 Moby Thesaurus words for "fireside":
      ancestral halls, chimney, chimney corner, family homestead, fender,
      fire screen, fireboard, fireguard, fireplace, flue, foyer, hearth,
      hearth and home, hearthstone, hob, home, home place, home roof,
      home sweet home, homestead, household, hub, ingle, inglenook,
      ingleside, menage, paternal roof, roof, rooftree, smokehole,
      toft

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