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fire-place

fire-place is the archaic form of fireplace.

Meaning of fireplace

Noun

fireplace (plural fireplaces)

  1. An open hearth for holding a fire at the base of a chimney.
    • Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    hearthstead

Forms of fire-place

pluralfire-places

Questions about fire-place

What is fire-place the archaic form of?
Fire-place is the archaic form of fireplace.

Words near fire-place in the dictionary

  1. fire-grates
  2. fire-new
  3. fire-on-the-mountain
  4. fire-pan
  5. fire-pans
  6. fire-place
  7. fire-places
  8. fire-plough
  9. fire-ploughs
  10. fire-plow
  11. fire-plows

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fire-place (page history and authors); fireplace (page history and authors). 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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