fireside
noun
adjective
Origin of fireside
Related Words for fireside
fireplace, dwelling, nest, cave, terrain, environment, surroundings, territory, haven, stove, furnace, chimney, hut, dormitory, apartment, palace, resort, shelter, house, hospitalExamples from the Web for fireside
Contemporary Examples of fireside
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 of fireside
Mrs. Raymount was sitting at the fireside with her embroidery.
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
Why shouldn't we make one fireside of it, and marry each other?'
The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas NicklebyCharles Dickens
There was a sergeant, reading, in one of the fireside groups.
The Uncommercial TravellerCharles Dickens
All this hubbub excited the attention of Boxtel, who was just taking his meal by his fireside.
The Black TulipAlexandre Dumas (Pere)
Now to recollect by the fireside on the white square of marble.
Monday or TuesdayVirginia Woolf