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# hearth

«hearth» in Mova's school dictionary: **the floor of a fireplace and the area just in front of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a hearth, hearths)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A hearth is the floor of a fireplace and the area just in front of it, where the fire burns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearth/#m1)

2) (literary) Hearth can mean home and family life, as in «hearth and home». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearth/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons, the hearth was the centre of the home in the past: people cooked, kept warm and gathered there. In safety, keep toys, paper and clothes away from the hearth. In stories, sitting by the hearth means a cosy, safe, homely scene. Phrases: hearth and home, by the hearth, hearth rug.

### examples

- The cat slept on the warm hearth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearth/#x1)
- Grandma swept the ashes from the hearth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearth/#x2)
- In Viking houses the hearth was in the middle of the room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearth/#x3)
- Keep the fireguard in front of the hearth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearth/#x4)
- The soldiers longed to return to hearth and home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearth/#x5)
- We hung our stockings above the hearth on Christmas Eve. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearth/#x6)
- The cakes were smoking on the hearth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearth/#x7)

### note

Say «harth»; in the UK it rhymes with «path», not with «earth». Do not confuse with «heart» or «earth», which look similar. Countable.

### In the corpora

- [And the hearth shall be four cubits; and from the hearth and upward there shall be four horns.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1160/)
- [And the hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square in the four sides thereof.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1161/)
- [For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1774/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hearth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.