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View synonyms for fireside

fireside

[ fahyuhr-sahyd ]

noun

  1. Also called hearthside. the space about a fire or hearth.
  2. home or family life.


adjective

  1. informal and friendly in manner:

    The politician's fireside manner helped her win votes.

fireside

/ ˈfaɪəˌsaɪd /

noun

  1. the hearth
  2. family life; the home


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fireside1

First recorded in 1555–65; fire + side 1

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Example Sentences

His Oval Office radio addresses were famously labeled “Fireside Chats” and he called listening citizens “my friends.”

His fireside chats brought his reassuring “radiogenic” voice to millions of Americans still suffering from the Great Depression.

Are there robes and fireside chats with goblets of sherry, that sort of thing?No, ha, nothing quite so effete.

In his mid-40s the author of so many happy fireside scenes grew tired of his wife.

Knowing he needed to sell the New Deal to the American people, Franklin Roosevelt created the dramatic fireside chats.

The quiet comfort and heartfelt warmth of an English fireside must be felt to be appreciated.

Little Colonel comes cautiously into the room, hugging the wall till he is back at the fireside.

But Gwynne concealed the promptings of vanity and took one of the chairs at the fireside, asking permission to light his pipe.

Well said, my man; but remember 'tis easier talking by one's own fireside than doing when the trial comes.

In its inception it was a mere attempt to write pleasing, popular verse of a better kind in the dialect of the fireside.

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