fireplace : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: fireplace	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for fireplace
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fireplace n an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built; "the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it"; "he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it"; "the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires" Synonym(s): fireplace, hearth, open fireplace
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fireplace \Fire"place`\, n. The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built.