FIRESIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fireside mean? 

• FIRESIDE (noun)
  The noun FIRESIDE has 2 senses:

1. an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room)

2. home symbolized as a part of the fireplace

  Familiarity information: FIRESIDE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIRESIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

fireside; hearth

Context example:

they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire

Hypernyms ("fireside" is a kind of...):

area; country (a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Home symbolized as a part of the fireplace

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

fireside; hearth

Context example:

fighting in defense of their firesides

Hypernyms ("fireside" is a kind of...):

abode; domicile; dwelling; dwelling house; habitation; home (housing that someone is living in)

Domain usage:

synecdoche (substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa)

Holonyms ("fireside" is a part of...):

fireplace; hearth; open fireplace (an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built)

 Context examples 

I feared that some difference between him and his mother might have led to his being in the frame of mind in which I had found him at the solitary fireside.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Why sit ye all moping by the fireside, like crows round a dead horse, when there is man's work to be done within a few short leagues of ye?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Heave him down by the fireside. Why should he have brandy, when many a Christian has to go without?”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Utterson was sitting by his fireside one evening after dinner, when he was surprised to receive a visit from Poole.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A poor woodman sat in his cottage one night, smoking his pipe by the fireside, while his wife sat by his side spinning.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I let down the curtain and went back to the fireside.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Such a man, to quit the tranquillity and independence of his own fireside, and on the evening of a cold sleety April day rush out again into the world!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

John would have preferred his own fireside if it had not been so lonely, but as it was he gratefully took the next best thing and enjoyed his neighbor's society.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She had a great deal to insinuate in her own praise as to general attention to the interest and comfort of his family, much exertion and many sacrifices to glance at in the form of hurried walks and sudden removals from her own fireside, and many excellent hints of distrust and economy to Lady Bertram and Edmund to detail, whereby a most considerable saving had always arisen, and more than one bad servant been detected.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And now, behold, with the first imagination of danger, or, if you will, the first mighty and terrific trial of your courage, you shrink away and are content to be handed down as men who had not strength enough to endure cold and peril; and so, poor souls, they were chilly and returned to their warm firesides.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)