How do you use the word "hearth" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "hearth": In Victorian age, women were considered "Angels of the hearth". Without hearth or home.

Hearth Meaning

/ˈhɑːθ/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos, fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.

nounA hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.

Sentence Examples

In Victorian age, women were considered "Angels of the hearth".

Without hearth or home.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

fireplace fireside

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The family sat around the warm ____ on a cold winter night.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The family gathered around the warm ____ to share stories and enjoy a hot cup of cocoa.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English herth, herthe, from Old English heorþ, from Proto-West Germanic *herþ, from Proto-Germanic *herþaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“heat; fire”). Cognate with West Frisian hurd, Dutch haard, German Herd, Swedish härd. The modern spelling is from an Middle English/Early Modern English /hɛːrθ/, from earlier /heːrθ/, levelled from inflected forms with /rð/ where the vowel would have been lengthened. The reflex of this pronunciation was preserved in obsolete dialectal /ˈhɜɹθ/.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"For by the hearth the children sit ⁠Cold in that atmosphere of Death, ⁠And scarce endure to draw the breath, Or like to noiseless phantoms flit: […]" — 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 33:

"When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons." — 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

"To put it simply, he seems to me to be starting out to harm the city, from its very hearth, by setting out to wrong you." — 2010, Plato, “Euthyphro”, in Christopher Rowe, transl., The Last Days of Socrates, Penguin Books Ltd., →ISBN, line 3a:

"Asatru is practised all over Northern Europe and also in North America. Like Druidry, it is organized into bodies with sub-groups, the hearths." — 1996, Vivianne Crowley, Thorsons principles of paganism, page 50:

"Smaller localized groups known as 'hearths' meet regularly, and are comparable, in size and function, with a Wiccan 'Coven' or Druidic 'Grove'." — 2003 December 8, Robert J. Wallis, Shamans/neo-Shamans: Ecstasy, Alternative Archaeologies, and Contemporary Pagans, page 102:

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