fireside

[fahyuh r-sahyd]

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noun

Also called hearthside. the space about a fire or hearth.
home.
home or family life.

adjective

informal and friendly in manner: The politician's fireside manner helped her win votes.

Origin of fireside

First recorded in 1555–65; fire + side¹

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Contemporary Examples

His Oval Office radio addresses were famously labeled “Fireside Chats” and he called listening citizens “my friends.”
FDR: King of All Media
John Avlon
September 2, 2014
His fireside chats brought his reassuring “radiogenic” voice to millions of Americans still suffering from the Great Depression.
When Mars Attacked 75 Years Ago—And Everyone Believed It
Marc Wortman
October 29, 2013
Are there robes and fireside chats with goblets of sherry, that sort of thing?No, ha, nothing quite so effete.
Ali Smith: How I Write
Noah Charney
January 23, 2013
Jimmy Carter was initially viewed as charming when he held a fireside chat in a wool cardigan.
Beware the GOP Coronation
Howard Kurtz
October 31, 2010
In his Fireside Chats, FDR spoke to some 60 million or more Americans as if he were confiding frankly to a single friend.
Obama's Speech and the Burden of History
Harold Evans
January 20, 2009

Historical Examples

Mrs. Raymount was sitting at the fireside with her embroidery.
Weighed and Wanting
George MacDonald
Why shouldn't we make one fireside of it, and marry each other?'
The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens
There was a sergeant, reading, in one of the fireside groups.
The Uncommercial Traveller
Charles Dickens
All this hubbub excited the attention of Boxtel, who was just taking his meal by his fireside.
The Black Tulip
Alexandre Dumas (Pere)
Now to recollect by the fireside on the white square of marble.
Monday or Tuesday
Virginia Woolf

British Dictionary definitions for fireside

fireside

noun

the hearth
family life; the home

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Word Origin and History for fireside

n.

1560s, from fire (n.) + side (n.). Symbolic of home life by 1848.

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Examples from the Web for fireside

Contemporary Examples

His Oval Office radio addresses were famously labeled “Fireside Chats” and he called listening citizens “my friends.”

His fireside chats brought his reassuring “radiogenic” voice to millions of Americans still suffering from the Great Depression.

Are there robes and fireside chats with goblets of sherry, that sort of thing?No, ha, nothing quite so effete.

Jimmy Carter was initially viewed as charming when he held a fireside chat in a wool cardigan.

In his Fireside Chats, FDR spoke to some 60 million or more Americans as if he were confiding frankly to a single friend.

Historical Examples

Mrs. Raymount was sitting at the fireside with her embroidery.

Why shouldn't we make one fireside of it, and marry each other?'

There was a sergeant, reading, in one of the fireside groups.

All this hubbub excited the attention of Boxtel, who was just taking his meal by his fireside.

Now to recollect by the fireside on the white square of marble.

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Word Origin and History for fireside

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Origin of fireside