fireside

fireside
I. noun Date: 1563 1. a place near the fire or hearth 2. home II. adjective Date: 1740 having an informal or intimate quality <
a fireside chat
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  • Fireside — can refer to the location adjacent to a fire ring or fireplace. It may also refer to:*Fireside Chats, evening radio talks given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression*Fireside Poets, a group of 19th century American… …   Wikipedia

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  • Fireside — Fire side , n. A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Fireside — Allgemeine Informationen Genre(s) Alternative Gründung 1992 Aktuelle Besetzung …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • fireside — index home (domicile) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • fireside — 1560s, from FIRE (Cf. fire) (n.) + SIDE (Cf. side). Symbolic of home life by 1848 …   Etymology dictionary

  • fireside — ► NOUN ▪ the area round a fireplace, especially as considered to be the focus of domestic life …   English terms dictionary

  • fireside — [fīr′sīd΄] n. 1. the part of a room near a fireplace or hearth 2. home or home life …   English World dictionary

  • fireside — [[t]fa͟ɪ͟ə(r)saɪd[/t]] firesides N COUNT: usu sing If you sit by the fireside in a room, you sit near the fire. ...winter evenings by the fireside. ...cosy fireside chats …   English dictionary

  • fireside — UK [ˈfaɪə(r)ˌsaɪd] / US [ˈfaɪrˌsaɪd] noun [countable] Word forms fireside : singular fireside plural firesides the part of a room near a fire a fireside chair …   English dictionary

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