fireplace

fireplace
    n 1: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a
         fire can be built; "the fireplace was so large you could
         walk inside it"; "he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it";
         "the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires"
         [syn: {fireplace}, {hearth}, {open fireplace}]
    

Fireplace \Fire"place`\, n.
   The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; --
   usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be
   built.
   [1913 Webster]
    

31 Moby Thesaurus words for "fireplace":
      ancestral halls, chimney, chimney corner, family homestead, fender,
      fire screen, fireboard, fireguard, fireside, 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