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hearthstones

hearthstones is the plural of hearthstone.

hearthstones is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hearthstone.

Meaning of hearthstone

Noun

hearthstone (plural hearthstones)

  1. A flat stone used to form a hearth.
    • I took a seat at the end of the hearthstone opposite that towards which my landlord advanced […].1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter I, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC
  2. (broadly, figuratively) The fireside, home life.
    • I am going to my own hearth-stone, / Bosomed in yon green hills alone,1846, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Good-Bye, line 15
  3. A soft kind of stone used to whiten doorsteps, scour floors, etc.
    • Lastly, there is the hearth-stone barrow, piled up with hearth-stone, Bath-brick and lumps of whiting1861, Henry Mayhew, London labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 29

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Questions about hearthstones

What is hearthstones the plural of?
Hearthstones is the plural of hearthstone.

Words near hearthstones in the dictionary

  1. hearthsteads
  2. hearthstone
  3. hearthstoned
  4. Hearthstoner
  5. Hearthstoners
  6. hearthstones
  7. hearthstoning
  8. hearthward
  9. hearthwards
  10. heartical
  11. heartier

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