hearth

hearth is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 10 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove.
2. noun. The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.
3. noun. The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles.
4. noun. 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"

   Synonyms: fireplace

5. noun. home symbolized as a part of the fireplace

   "driven from hearth and home"

   "fighting in defense of their firesides"

   Synonyms: fireside

6. noun. an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room)

   "they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire"

   Synonyms: fireside

Synonyms

fireplace, fireside

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in hearth:

hertha

Common word forms

hearths, hearthless

Words from these letters

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