'Fireplace' definitions:
Definition of 'fireplace'
From: WordNet
noun
An open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built; "the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it"; "he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it"; "the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires" [syn: fireplace, hearth, open fireplace]
Definition of 'Fireplace'
From: GCIDE
- Fireplace \Fire"place`\, n. The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fireplace'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ancestral halls,
- chimney,
- chimney corner,
- family homestead,
- fender,
- fire screen,
- fireboard,
- fireguard,
- fireside,
- flue,
- foyer,
- hearth,
- hearth and home,
- hearthstone,
- hob,
- home,
- home place,
- home roof,
- home sweet home,
- homestead,
- household,
- hub,
- ingle,
- inglenook,
- ingleside,
- menage,
- paternal roof,
- roof,
- rooftree,
- smokehole,
- toft