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# mantelpiece

«mantelpiece» in Mova's school dictionary: **the shelf above a fireplace, often with ornaments…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a mantelpiece, mantelpieces; also «mantel», «mantelshelf»)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A mantelpiece is the shelf above a fireplace, often with ornaments, clocks, cards or photos on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mantelpiece/#m1)

2) The frame around a fireplace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mantelpiece/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories it is a cosy home detail: birthday cards, Christmas stockings and family photos often sit on the mantelpiece. In detective stories, a clue is often found "on the mantelpiece". Phrases: «on the mantelpiece», «above the mantelpiece».

### examples

- Grandma keeps our school photos on the mantelpiece. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mantelpiece/#x1)
- The clock on the mantelpiece struck six. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mantelpiece/#x2)
- We hung our Christmas stockings from the mantelpiece. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mantelpiece/#x3)
- The birthday cards were lined up along the mantelpiece. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mantelpiece/#x4)
- The detective found a key hidden behind a vase on the mantelpiece. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mantelpiece/#x5)
- A painting hung above the mantelpiece. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mantelpiece/#x6)
- It revelled in its liberty, and presently flew up on to the mantelpiece and screamed away to its heart's content. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mantelpiece/#x7)

### note

Countable noun, one word. Spelling: mantEL (not mantle). American English often says «mantel». Safety: don't put things that can burn, or hang stockings, too close to a lit fire.

### In the corpora

- [The photo ended up on Gran's mantelpiece, and every time Maddie saw it she remembered that the shove came first.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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