fireside

See also: fire-side

English

Im Etappenquartier vor Paris, a painting by Anton von Werner, depicting a fireside scene

Alternative forms

• fire-side (archaic)

Etymology

From fire +‎ side.

Noun

fireside (plural firesides)

1. The area near a domestic fire or hearth.
2. (by extension, symbolic) One's home.
3. (by extension) Home life.
4. (Mormonism) A supplementary meeting in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
   • 1994 October, Rex D. Pinegar, “The Simple Things”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1]:

     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[...]”

   • 1999 April, Keith B. McMullin, “Welcome Home”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[2]:

     Thomas (that is not his real name) was one who had lost his way. We became acquainted at a special fireside attended by members one doesn’t normally see on Sunday[...] The day before, Thomas’s father had invited him to attend the fireside.

Derived terms

• fireside chat
• fireside set

Translations

Translations

• Galician: lar (gl) m
• German: Kaminecke f
• Greek: παραγώνι (el) n (paragóni)
• Navajo: honibąąh
• Russian: у ками́на (u kamína)
• Spanish: alrededor de la chimenea
• Turkish: ocakbaşı (tr), şömine kenarı

Further reading

• fireside on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Seifried, deifiers, edifiers