From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fireside \Fire"side'\, noun A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: 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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
31 Moby Thesaurus words for "fireside": ancestral halls, chimney, chimney corner, family homestead, fender, fire screen, fireboard, fireguard, fireplace, flue, foyer, hearth, hearth and home, hearthstone, hob, home, home place, home roof, home sweet home, homestead, household, hub, ingle, inglenook, ingleside, menage, paternal roof, roof, rooftree, smokehole, toft
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