What is the floor of a fireplace better known as?
If you are warming yourself by the fireplace, you are sitting by the hearth. The noun hearth refers to a fireplace and the area around it. Hearth refers specifically to the paved floor of a fireplace, which may extend out into a room.
Hearths are associated with home and family because the hearth was historically the main source of heat in the home, as well as where the cooking was done. As a result, family members often gathered together around the hearth. The importance of the hearth has made it symbolic of the home, as in the phrase "hearth and home."
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13 Comments
Kevin Dale Streets
You know what they say: Home is where the HEARTH is! :D
janice holmes
I love an open fireplace
Iswardew Matai
Huis en haard
Najmi Abbas
Hearth & Home, so much nostalgia.🪷🪻
Glynis Rix
Kevin Dale Streets, Humor!
Glynis Rix
I should have got the first three right if hadn't been so hasty!
Kath Thomson
skclary, actually the hearth is also what the fire grate sits on and the ashes fall onto. In the case of an enclosed burner/stove, the stove sits on the hearth which extends into the room.
Kath Thomson
Liz Hamilton, actually the hearth is also what the fire grate sits on and the ashes fall onto. In the case of an enclosed burner/stove, the stove sits on the hearth which extends into the room.
skclary
Was told the "hearth" was in front of fireplace and was not used in the fire itself!
Liz Hamilton
The hearth is the floor IN FRONT of the fireplace, not the floor of the fireplace. Poorly worded question.
Lawanta
John W Shreve, 😻
Jackrelax
The hearth is usually the facade of a fireplace
John W Shreve
The many hearts that have become one beside the fire.