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What does hearth mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hearth? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A brick, stone or cement floor to a fireplace or oven.
  2. An open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
  3. The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
  4. (figuratively) Home or family life.
  5. (paganism) A household or group following the modern pagan faith of Heathenry.
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In the open hearth process an oxygen lance is arranged to blow large volumes of oxygen onto the molten metal in the hearth.
Another of the Travis felines, a white angora, won its way into the family hearth by adopting Glanville's boat.
Because the hearth had vanished, we were forced to select another hearth feature for archeomagnetic studies.
To the right, the drawing room is a spacious area with a raised fireplace with brass inset and white marble hearth.
Torches were then lighted from the bonfire and carried to each home to relight the hearth fire.
Two armchairs stood by each side of the hearth and I sat down in one of them to get warm.

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