• (RP) IPA: /hɑːθ/
• (America) IPA: /hɑːɹθ/

hearth (plural hearths)

1. A brick, stone or cement floor to a fireplace or oven.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:

     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.

2. An open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.

   Synonyms: fireplace

3. The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
4. A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.
5. (figurative) Home or family life.
6. (paganism) A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.

• French: âtre, foyer
• German: Feuerstelle, Herdboden
• Italian: focolare
• Portuguese: lar
• Russian: оча́г
• Spanish: hogar, lar, solera, fogón

• French: âtre
• German: Feuerstelle, Herd
• Italian: focolare
• Portuguese: lareira
• Russian: ками́н
• Spanish: hogar

• German: Feuerstelle, Gestell in einem Hochofen
• Italian: focolare, letto della fornace
• Russian: дно
• Spanish: crisol, solera

• French: foyer, foyers
• German: Herd
• Portuguese: lar, fogo
• Russian: семе́йный оча́г
• Spanish: hogar, llar, patria (of a nation)