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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fireplace
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
huge
▪ Silver cups - golfing trophies - crammed the mantelpiece over a huge arched brick fireplace.
▪ A narrow stairway of glossy marble led straight into a sitting room arranged around a huge open fireplace.
▪ The harp was brought to her and she took her customary seat by the huge fireplace in the north wall.
▪ He sat to the left of the huge fireplace.
▪ The focal point of reception was a huge brick fireplace.
open
▪ I noticed the attractive terracotta-tiled floor and another open fireplace which at the time housed the refrigerator.
▪ The logs in the Adam-style open fireplace crackled.
▪ In front of an open fireplace in the hall, a couple of large leather armchairs were occupied by two men in dark suits.
▪ Each was low and irregular, plain white plaster walls with prominent wooden spars bracing the ceiling and an open stone fireplace.
▪ A narrow stairway of glossy marble led straight into a sitting room arranged around a huge open fireplace.
▪ Their L-shaped living rooms were graced by open fireplaces, with the latest shapes in petrified wood adorning the mantelpieces.
▪ All that exists of the imposing dwelling is a few feet of wall and an open fireplace adjoining Cumnor Church.
▪ She noticed an open fireplace with an ornate mantelshelf in black marble.
■ NOUN
marble
▪ Over the marble fireplace was a portrait, presumably of the baronet who had commissioned the house.
▪ We occupy the sun porch, a windowless living room with a fake marble fireplace and a dining room behind glass doors.
▪ Inside, high ceilings, plaster cornices, marble fireplaces and a pine staircase contribute to its air of grandeur.
▪ A black leather suite was arranged around a white marble fireplace standing starkly against slate-grey walls and carpet.
▪ The Prince took his customary place before the plain white marble fireplace.
stone
▪ The dining room has a beamed ceiling and a wood-burning stove within a stone fireplace.
▪ They followed Dieter through the ornate entrance and into a large cool room with an enormous stone fireplace facing the door.
▪ Each was low and irregular, plain white plaster walls with prominent wooden spars bracing the ceiling and an open stone fireplace.
▪ I build a fire in the stone fireplace next to the cabin.
▪ A wood-burning iron stove occupied the hearth of a big stone fireplace at one end.
▪ The old man sat playing solitaire at a card table in front of the stone fireplace.
▪ The Judge was sitting in a great, high-backed oak chair, on the right-hand side of a great stone fireplace.
▪ The latter set about restoring its decrepit but largely unaltered state, uncovering the great stone fireplace in the hall.
■ VERB
stand
▪ He was standing by the fireplace.
▪ She trotted softly through the passageway letting out on the living room, and entered it and stood before the fireplace mantel.
▪ They walked down the hall and stood near the fireplace.
▪ I arrived home and my parents were standing in front of the fireplace.
▪ She was standing by the fireplace, staring at the photographs that were crowded along the mantlepiece top.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The family sat in front of the fireplace until late in the evening.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A fire was burning in the ancient fireplace.
▪ A single cushion had been hurled across the room and it lay on the edge of the fireplace.
▪ Lodging: Resort lodging ranges from motel rooms to three-bedroom cabins with fireplaces and full kitchens.
▪ Once you are satisfied that the flue is in a usable condition, you can turn your attention to the fireplace itself.
▪ Only then did he stand with his back to the fireplace and look about the room.
▪ The system allows a lot more flexibility in the way the fireplace can be placed in the house.
▪ Then we built our fire in the outdoor fireplace to boil potatoes and heat up red beans for supper.
▪ We lean into each other, and then we go home to our little apartment and the fireplace.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fireplace

Fireplace \Fire"place`\, n. The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fireplace

also fire-place, c.1700, from fire (n.) + place (n.).

Wiktionary
fireplace

n. An open hearth for holding a fire at the base of a chimney.

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WordNet
fireplace

n. 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" [syn: hearth, open fireplace]

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Wikipedia
Fireplace

A fireplace is an architectural structure made of brick, stone or metal designed to contain a fire. In the 2010s, fireplaces are used for the relaxing ambiance they create and for heating a room. Modern fireplaces have variable heat efficiency, depending on the sophistication of the design.

Historically they were used for heating a dwelling, cooking, and heating water for laundry and domestic uses. A fire is contained in a firebox or firepit; a chimney or other flue allows exhaust to escape. A fireplace may have: a foundation; a hearth; a firebox; a mantelpiece; a chimney crane, used in kitchen and laundry fireplaces; a grate; a lintel; a lintel bar; overmantel; a damper; a smoke chamber; a throat; and a flue.

On the exterior there is often a corbeled brick crown, in which the projecting courses of brick act as a drip course to keep rainwater from running down the exterior walls. A cap, hood, or shroud serves to keep rainwater out of the exterior of the chimney; rain in the chimney is a much greater problem in chimneys lined with impervious flue tiles or metal liners than with the traditional masonry chimney, which soaks up all but the most violent rain. Some chimneys have a spark arrestor incorporated into the crown or cap.

Organizations like the Environmental Protection Agency and the Washington Department of Ecology warn that, according to various studies, fireplaces can pose a significant health risk. The EPA writes " Smoke may smell good, but it's not good for you."

Usage examples of "fireplace".

High ceilings, polished wood, antiques, dollies protecting table tops, a basket of pine cones next to the fireplace, an afghan draped over the arm of the sofa-the whole Americana bit.

Lying there with nothing but the glowing embers in the fireplace to brighten her chamber, she reviewed her encounter with Antonio Thorndyke.

Their fragrance, released by the steam, drifted through the bedchamber, mingling with the scent of applewood burning in the new fireplace and the lavender on the floor.

She brought bowls and baskets of it into the cave and set them near the fireplace to melt.

She turned her head over her shoulder and gave that man planted heavily in front of the fireplace a glance, half arch, half cruel, out of her large eyes - a glance of which the Winnie of the Belgravian mansion days would have been incapable, because of her respectability and her ignorance.

An example of Jacobean domestic architecture at its finest, The Bottoms boasts a number of historical features including a priest hole, moulded plasterwork ceilings, heraldic fireplaces and stone-flagged floors throughout.

Though the rapidly falling temperature of the air outside only whispered of approaching autumn, Bunyanesque lengths of amputated oak crackled for attention within the Stygian depths of a corner fireplace fashioned of hand-laid river rock.

I left the caseworker still alive and scrubbing the brick around the fireplace in the den.

Ben led us through a big, yellow living room with a limestone fireplace, brocade couches, chinoiserie tables, Imari porcelain lamps with parchment shades.

The next thing Cluny knew, he was standing on the small, makeshift stage in front of the fireplace.

Italian while Leonard Colo stood alongside the fireplace, staring into the flames and waxing his hands endlessly with a look of world-weary patience that did not match the cold misery in his heart.

A colour television filled the fireplace and a valuable Coromandel screen completed the decor.

It seemed she could hear Morning Star moving about on the other side of the dogtrot, in the area around the fireplace kitchen.

The shapeless lumps of metal mocking him from above the fireplace, a drably clad man slipping in at the doors with a knife in his hand, the books lying everywhere.

The heat thrown out by the logs burning in the fireplace was considerable, but was unavailing to prevent the draughts sweeping through the room.