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Definition: Chimney Corner |
Chimney CornerNoun1. A corner by a fireplace. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Chimney CornerSynonym: inglenook (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Home, fatherland; country; homestead, homestall; fireside; hearth, hearth stone; chimney corner, inglenook, ingle side; harem, seraglio, zenana; household gods, lares et penates, roof, household, housing, dulce domum, paternal domicile; native soil, native land. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Chimney Corner |
| English words defined with "chimney corner": Ingle nock. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "chimney corner": Chimney. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Sir Philip Sidney | With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
chimney corner | 11 |
camp chimney corner | 6 |
becket chimney corner ymca | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "chimney corner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vend pranë oxhakut. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | място за сядане край камина. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | koutek u krbu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παραστιά, παραγκώνι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kandallósarok (fireside). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | chiollagh chiollee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | imneychay ornercay место у камина (chimney-corner, fire side). (various references) zapećak, udubljenje u zidu kamina. (various references) espacio junto a la chimenea. (various references) spiselvrå (inglenook). (various references) ocak başı (fireside, inglenook). (various references) теплий куточок, місце біля каміна (fireside), затишний (cosy, couth, cozy, homelike, homely, homey, homy, snug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-h-i-m-n-n-o-r-r-y" | |
-4 letters: coherency, cornermen, merocrine. | |
-5 letters: ceremony, choremen, cicerone, coinhere, corniche, croceine, eminency, enchoric, enricher, neomycin, noncrime. | |
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