dictionary definitions for "fireplace"


From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  fireplace
      n 1: 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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]


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