fireside

[ fahyuh r-sahyd ]

/ ˈfaɪərˌsaɪd /

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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.

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Origin of fireside

First recorded in 1555–65; fire + side¹

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Examples from the Web for fireside

His Oval Office radio addresses were famously labeled “Fireside Chats” and he called listening citizens “my friends.”
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His fireside chats brought his reassuring “radiogenic” voice to millions of Americans still suffering from the Great Depression.
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Are there robes and fireside chats with goblets of sherry, that sort of thing?No, ha, nothing quite so effete.
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Jimmy Carter was initially viewed as charming when he held a fireside chat in a wool cardigan.
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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|DAILY BEAST
She came back to the fireside, and unfolded the letter and read it.
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At his first appearance on the scene, in the inn kitchen, he calls for a pipe of tobacco before taking his place at the fireside.
The Social History of Smoking|G. L. Apperson
Here is a poor patient, sitting in an armchair by the fireside, labouring to get breath.
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Dorothy, in kindness to us, was sitting alone by the fireside in Lady Crawford's chamber.
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall|Charles Major
The landlady installed her guest comfortably by the fireside, and offered what refreshment her house afforded.
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British Dictionary definitions for fireside

fireside

/ (ˈfaɪəˌsaɪd) /

noun

the hearth

family life; the home

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Word Origin and History for fireside

fireside

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

fireside

noun

adjective

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Examples from the Web for fireside

British Dictionary definitions for fireside

fireside

noun

Word Origin and History for fireside

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