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FIRESIDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Home symbolized as a part of the fireplace
Example:
fighting in defense of their firesides
Synonyms:
fireside; hearth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("fireside" is a kind of...):
abode; domicile; dwelling; dwelling house; habitation; home (housing that someone is living in)
Domain usage:
synecdoche (substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa)
Holonyms ("fireside" is a part of...):
fireplace; hearth; open fireplace (an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room)
Example:
they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire
Synonyms:
fireside; hearth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("fireside" is a kind of...):
area; country (a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography))
Context examples:
Agnes and hospitality prevailed, however, and I conducted him to my fireside.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
There he sits as easy and happy as if he was at home, in the chair by his fireside; he trips against no stones, saves shoe-leather, and gets on he hardly knows how.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
This brought them to the fireside, where the easy-chair was drawn cosily up, and the tea things stood ready to the sitter’s elbow, the very sugar in the cup.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Mrs. Reed occupied her usual seat by the fireside; she made a signal to me to approach; I did so, and she introduced me to the stony stranger with the words: This is the little girl respecting whom I applied to you.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A man, said he, must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Any gap at your fireside on such a night—such a gap least of all—I wouldn't make, for the wealth of the Indies!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside, and with her darlings about her (for the time neither quarrelling nor crying) looked perfectly happy.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She was a plain, motherly kind of woman, who had worked hard in her youth, and now thought herself entitled to the occasional holiday of a tea-visit; and having formerly owed much to Mr. Woodhouse's kindness, felt his particular claim on her to leave her neat parlour, hung round with fancy-work, whenever she could, and win or lose a few sixpences by his fireside.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
We went there at the usual hour; and round the study fireside found the Doctor, and his young wife, and her mother.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"Well, I cannot return to the house," I thought; "I cannot sit by the fireside, while he is abroad in inclement weather: better tire my limbs than strain my heart; I will go forward and meet him."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
