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fire-side

fire-side is the archaic form of fireside.

Meaning of fireside

Noun

fireside (plural firesides)

  1. The area near a domestic fire or hearth.
  2. (broadly, symbolic) One's home.
  3. (broadly) Home life.
  4. (Mormonism) A supplementary meeting in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
    • At a Brigham Young University fireside, President Hunter said, “If you feel that … what you do this year or in the years to come does not make you very famous, take heart[...]”1994 October, Rex D. Pinegar, “The Simple Things”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

Forms of fire-side

pluralfire-sides

Questions about fire-side

What is fire-side the archaic form of?
Fire-side is the archaic form of fireside.

Words near fire-side in the dictionary

  1. fire-resistant
  2. fire-retardant
  3. fire-retardants
  4. fire-retarded
  5. fire-sale
  6. fire-side
  7. fire-sides
  8. fire-starter
  9. fire-stick
  10. fire-stick farming
  11. fire-sticks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fire-side (page history and authors); fireside (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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