Noun
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"

Noun
home symbolized as a part of the fireplace; "driven from hearth and home"; "fighting in defense of their firesides"

Noun
an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room); "they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire"

n.
The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove.

n.
The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.

n.
The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles.

Hearth

There was a fire on the hearth burning before him.

Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry.

He had been importuned by the common people to relieve them from the . . . burden of the hearth money.

The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove.