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ingleside

ingleside adjective: beside an open fireplace.

Adjective

ingleside (not comparable)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) Beside an open fireplace.
    • John, however, walked quietly in, and sat down on a heap of rubbish by the ingleside […]1830, The Log Book; Or, Nautical Miscellany, number 2, page 455

Proper noun capitalized: Ingleside

Ingleside

  1. A suburb of Sydney in the Northern Beaches council area, New South Wales, Australia.
  2. A town, the county seat of United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada.

Origin of ingleside

From ingle + -side.

Questions about ingleside

What does ingleside mean?
Ingleside means beside an open fireplace.
What part of speech is ingleside?
Ingleside can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near ingleside in the dictionary

  1. inglenook
  2. inglenooks
  3. ingles
  4. Inglese
  5. Ingleses
  6. ingleside
  7. Ingleston
  8. Ingleton
  9. Inglett
  10. Ingletts
  11. Inglewhite

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