HOW TO PRONOUNCE
hearth
/ˈhɑɹθ/
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HARTH: the vowel matches “heart.”
This is one syllable. Keep the r before the final th, and use the unvoiced th sound of “thin.”
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“A small fire glowed on the hearth.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does hearth mean?
noun
- The 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.
- A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.
- A fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
More meanings (4)
noun
- The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
- A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.
- (figuratively) Home or family life.
- A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈhɑɹθ/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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Sally was already helping the ladies to take off their travelling cloaks, and both turned, with a shiver, towards the brightly-blazing hearth.
The carpenter, however, stepped at once to the hearth, and turned himself about, so as to look Mr. Pyncheon in the face.
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His bald head had fallen upon his breast, and he fixed a melancholy and irritated gaze upon the ashes on his hearth.
I turned away from her and walked to the hearth, in which some paper ash lay and yet emitted a faint smell.
He went downstairs in his shirt and then struggled into his pit-trousers, which were left on the hearth to warm all night.