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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fireside
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A cat dozed in the chair by the fireside.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But we were nearly concluded, and the fireside beckons.
▪ I handed Narendra his gudio and hobbled through the house out to the fireside.
▪ In this imaginary fireside setting, he would not talk much, he thought.
▪ It is the Leadville that found its way to her fireside.
▪ Rich, fireside colours add warmth to the room and, of course, they are supremely practical.
▪ Such a creature took at once a large step toward the fireside.
▪ These themes are symbolised by the fireside and the kitchen.
▪ Why couldn't Joe let her sit in the fireside armchair in the living-room so that she'd at least have company?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fireside

Fireside \Fire"side`\, n. A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fireside

also fire-side, 1560s, from fire (n.) + side (n.). Symbolic of home life by 1848. As an adjective from 1740s; especially suggesting the intimately domestic.

Wiktionary
fireside

n. 1 The area near a domestic fire or hearth. 2 (context by extension symbolic English) One's home. 3 (context by extension English) home life. 4 (context Mormonism English) A supplementary meeting in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

WordNet
fireside
  1. n. an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room); "they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire" [syn: hearth]

  2. home symbolized as a part of the fireplace; "driven from hearth and home"; "fighting in defense of their firesides" [syn: hearth]

Wikipedia
Fireside (LDS Church)

A fireside is a supplementary, evening meeting in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

The term "fireside" was first used in the 1930s for a variety of such meetings in the LDS Church. The official use the term has been discontinued and largely replaced with "devotional" or "discussion", but "fireside" continues to be used informally by members.

Firesides are commonly held for a subset of members (youth, Young Single Adults, Single Adults, quorums, wards, etc.) of a congregation or congregations in an area. A fireside is most commonly held on Sunday evenings, but may be held any day of the week. They are often held in a meetinghouse, Institute of Religion, or a personal residence, depending on the number of people expected to attend. Often, refreshments are served afterwards while the attendees mingle.

A fireside usually either consists of a single speaker on a religious topic or a group discussion led by a church leader. They typically last between one and two hours. Sometimes, firesides are broadcast via satellite to stake centers and Institutes of Religion throughout the world.

The first church-wide radio firesides were broadcast for youth in 1960. Since 1992, monthly firesides for young adults have been produced by the Church Educational System (CES) and broadcast by satellite throughout North America. In 2015, these CES Devotionals were renamed as Worldwide Devotionals for Young Adults.

Fireside

As a noun, fireside may refer to:

  • A fireside, the area near a domestic fireplace or a fire ring
  • A Fireside (LDS Church), an evening meeting in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons)
  • an apple cultivar, see Fireside (apple)

As a title, Fireside may refer to:

  • Fireside Chats, evening radio talks given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression
  • Fireside Poets, group of 19th-century U.S. poets from New England
  • Fireside Books, publishing imprint of Simon & Schuster
  • Fireside (band), Swedish rock band
  • The Fireside Bowl, concert venue in Chicago, Illinois
  • The Fireside Girls, a group of female protagonists in the TV cartoon Phineas and Ferb
  • Fireside, British Columbia, a community in Canada
  • Fireside, Ohio, a community in the United States
Fireside (band)

Fireside is a Grammis Award-winning rock band that formed in the Swedish Hardcore scene in the early 1990s. After finding moderate success as a Post-grunge/Alternative metal band, yet tiring of playing half-filled venues, Fireside adopted an Emo rock/ Pop punk sound in 1998. In 2000, with the release of Elite, the band took a more experimental approach to rock, but 2003's All You Had saw the band return to Emo rock/ Pop punk. The band's official website is no longer active and the status of the band is currently unknown.

Usage examples of "fireside".

You force me from this, and from more--for you force me from my home, at the moment when my son has affectionately entreated me to take him back to my fireside.

But he had no sooner started to agree with Doli than Ellidyr thrust his way to the fireside.

Never shall I forget the dunt that the first tap of the drum gied to my heart, as I was sitting on Hansel Monday by myself at the parlour fireside, Mrs Balwhidder being throng with the lassies looking out a washing, and my daughter at Ayr, spending a few days with her old comrades of the boarding school.

I likened the parish to a widow woman with a small family, sitting in her cottage by the fireside, herself spinning with an eident wheel, ettling her best to get them a bit and a brat, and the poor weans all canty about the hearthstane--the little ones at their playocks, and the elder at their tasks--the callans working with hooks and lines to catch them a meal of fish in the morning-- and the lassies working stockings to sell at the next Marymas fair.

No bananas yet, so I called Glory Geis, who chortled happy welcome, and I fenderfought my way to the lake-shore fireside, where once again in the blue jump suit the graceful ragamuffin lady in her second widowhood plied me with a potion which sharpened the taste buds for what the kitchen would provide.

Then he set the piece down by the fireside, drained his hot jorum, and.

Frank Barber had gone out to meet one of his sooty friends and only Levet was at the fireside.

And the occasion which produced that prosaic thought was a night well calculated to make one think of supper and fireside, though the one might be frugal and the other lonely, and as I, Gulliver Jones, the poor foresaid Navy lieutenant, with the honoured stars of our Republic on my collar, and an undeserved snub from those in authority rankling in my heart, picked my way homeward by a short cut through the dismalness of a New York slum I longed for steak and stout, slippers and a pipe, with all the pathetic keenness of a troubled soul.

New modes of elaborating squash pies and quince tarts were now ofttimes carefully discussed at the evening firesides by Aunt Lois and Aunt Keziah, and notes seriously compared with the experiences of certain other aunties of high repute in such matters.

She made a pot of tea as well, and afterward we sat by the fireside sipping it from heavy red porcelain mugs.

I should wish to see you in the real, visible, palpable, smellable beauty of your own person, standing before me in my own house, at my own fireside, in all the halo of your poetical radiance!

Sitting up in the coffin singing extropian fireside songs, that kind of thing.

Mrs Balwhidder had just infused or masket the tea, and we were set round the fireside, to spend the night in an orderly and religious manner, along with Mr and Mrs Petticrew, who were on a friendly visitation to the manse, the mistress being full cousin to Mrs Balwhidder.

But before Danner could respond to the babble, Patrel came to the fireside and called for quiet.

As the old woman shuffled out, still muttering, an injured expression on her face, Seriema moved to the comfortable chair by the fireside and dropped her face into her hands, giving herself up to her worries once more.