fireplace

[ fahyuhr-pleys ]
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noun
  1. the part of a chimney that opens into a room and in which fuel is burned; hearth.

  2. any open structure, usually of masonry, for keeping a fire, as at a campsite.

Origin of fireplace

1
First recorded in 1645–55; fire + place

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How to use fireplace in a sentence

  • I stood in this new door, looking back at my twin fireplaces, with their plain-panelled old mantels.

    The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard Eaton
  • "They may knock 'em off the axles an' make hearths for their fireplaces, and use the axles for posts," suggested Si.

  • The charcoal in the fireplaces came from oak wood, showing that oak forests are overspreading the country.

British Dictionary definitions for fireplace

fireplace

/ (ˈfaɪəˌpleɪs) /


noun
  1. an open recess in a wall of a room, at the base of a chimney, etc, for a fire; hearth

  2. Australian an authorized place or installation for outside cooking, esp by a roadside

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