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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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These wanderers still travel to the ruins of the old house and try to start up the old hearth fire.
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.
Because the hearth had vanished, we were forced to select another hearth feature for archeomagnetic studies.
The low, irregular ceiling is crisscrossed with beams made from ships' timbers and a log fire crackles merrily in the hearth.
The last embers of Empire were still glowing in the hearth as the Iranians experience a democratic political awakening.

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