chimney
UK/ˈt͡ʃɪmni/
chimney noun: a vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon- or hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.
Noun
chimney (plural chimneys or (archaic) chimnies)
- A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon- or hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.
- Our chimney was a square hole in the roof: it was but a little part of the smoke that found its way out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us coughing and piping the eye.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC
- The external aspect of the oficina was not unlike that of a north-country coal or iron mine—tall chimneys and machinery, corrugated iron buildings, offices and houses, the shanties of workmen, a high bank of refuse.1890, William Howard Russell, “Iquique to the Pampas”, in A Visit to Chile and the Nitrate Fields of Tarapacá, Etc., London: J[ames] S[prent] Virtue & Co., […], page 171
- Synonyms:
- lum
- The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
- By next winter he was spending every evening poring over the work of Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné on the French Reformation by the light of a little oil lamp, with a tiny cistern the size of an orange and no chimney[.]1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 22
- The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
- A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
- A vagina.
- A black eye; a shiner.
Verb
chimney (third-person singular simple present chimneys, present participle chimneying, simple past and past participle chimneyed)
chimney meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
chimney in Hindi
- vertical tube or hollow column; a flue
- चिमनी cimnī, धुआँकश dhuā̃kaś
chimney in Tamil
- vertical tube or hollow column; a flue
- புகைப்போக்கி pukaippōkki, புகைக்கூண்டு pukaikkūṇṭu
- UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive
- புகைப்போக்கி pukaippōkki
chimney in Marathi
- चिमणी, चिमनी, चिमणीला
chimney in Urdu
- vertical tube or hollow column; a flue
- چِمْنی cimnī, دُود کَش dūd kaś, دُھواں کَش dhuā̃ kaś
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- chimney in Bengali
- চিমনি cimoni
- chimney in Telugu
- పొగగూడు pogagūḍu
- chimney in Malayalam
- ചിമ്മിനി cimmini, പുകക്കുഴൽ pukakkuḻal
- chimney in Kannada
- ಹೊಗೆನಳಿಗೆ, ಹೊಗೆಕೊಳವಿ, ಹೊಗೆಕೊಳವೆ, ಹೊಗೆನಳಿಕೆ
- chimney in Punjabi
- ਚਿਮਨੀ, ਚੀਮਨੀ, ਚਿੰਮਨੀ
- chimney in Gujarati
- ધુમાડિયું dhumāḍiyũ, ચીમની cīmnī
- chimney in Odia
- ଚିମ୍ନି, ଚିମ୍ନୀ, ଚିମନି
- chimney in Nepali
- चिमनी, चिम्नी, चिमनीमा
- chimney in Tagalog
- pausukan
- chimney in Arabic
- مَدْخَنَة madḵana
- chimney in Malay
- serombong
- chimney in Indonesian
- cerobong
- chimney in Thai
- ปล่อง bplɔ̀ng, ปล่องควัน bplɔ̀ng-kwan, ปล่องไฟ bplɔ̀ng-fai
- chimney in Vietnamese
- ống khói
- chimney in Myanmar
- ခေါင်းတိုင် hkaung:tuing
Examples of chimney in a sentence
- The chimney won’t draw properly if it’s clogged up with soot.
- The builders are going to carry the chimney through the roof.
- Children believe that Santa Claus comes down the chimney to bring them Christmas presents.
Synonyms of chimney
Forms of chimney
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | chimneys |
| plural (archaic) | chimnies |
| alternative form (dialectal) | chimley |
| alternative form (dialectal) | chimbley |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | chimneys |
| present participle | chimneying |
| past participle | chimneyed |
| past | chimneyed |
Origin of chimney
From Middle English chymeneye, chymneye, chymene, from Old French cheminee, from Late Latin camīnāta, from Latin camīnus, from Ancient Greek κάμῑνος (kámīnos, “furnace”). Doublet of chimenea.
Words formed from chimney
- chimney balloon
- chimney board
- chimney breast
- chimney-breast
- chimney cake
- chimney campanula
- chimney can
- chimney cap
- chimney corner
- chimney-corner
- chimney-duty
- chimney effect
- chimney fire
- chimney flashing
- chimney flute
- chimneyful
- chimney-glass
- chimney hook
- chimneyless
- chimneylike
- chimney money
- chimney-money
- chimney piece
- chimneypiece
- chimney-piece
- chimney pot
- chimney-pot hat
- Chimney Rock
- chimneyscape
- chimney stack
- chimney stalk
- chimney swallow
- chimney-sweep
- chimney sweep
- chimney-sweeper
- chimney sweeper
- chimney sweep's cancer
- chimney sweep's carcinoma
- chimney swift
- fairy chimney
- pie chimney
- smoke like a chimney
- sweep-chimney
- Welsh chimney
Phrases with chimney
Questions about chimney
- What does chimney mean?
- Chimney means a vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon- or hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.
- What is chimney in Hindi?
- Chimney in Hindi is चिमनी (cimnī), धुआँकश (dhuā̃kaś). See Chimney meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is chimney?
- Chimney can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce chimney?
- Chimney is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃɪmni/ (UK).
- What is the plural of chimney?
- The plural of chimney is chimneys.
Words near chimney in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: chimney (page history and authors); chimney (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); పొగగూడు (Telugu) (page history and authors); chimney (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chimney (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chimney (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chimney (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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