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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built;
- Example: "the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it"
- Example: "he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it"
- Example: "the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires"
[syn: fireplace, hearth, open fireplace]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]