firesiden.
/ˈfʌɪəsʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈfaɪ(ə)rˌsaɪd/ 1. The area around a fireplace, typically occupied by seats; (sometimes) spec. (esp. in early use) the area under a chimney to the right and left of the fire, occupied by seats (cf. chimney-corner n. 1). Chiefly in by the fireside.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > hearth or fireplace > space beside
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1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere iv. p. viii An olde wyfe wolde be ashamed to rede suche redles so folysshely by the fyre syde amonge yonge chyldren.
1563 in F. J. Furnivall Child-marriages, Divorces, & Ratifications Diocese Chester (1897) 58 This contract was made toward eveninge nere the fireside.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 216 They ought..to serue, but for Winter Talke, by the Fire side.
1640 T. Carew Poems 2 Love no more is made By the fire side.
?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. i. 12 The news..coming to the Pope, as he was saying his Beads by the Fire-side.
1791 Let. to E. Burke from Dissenting Country Attorney 73 I..am sitting at ease, by my fire-side, fearless of the threatened church associations.
1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) iv. i. 488 The warm house, and the comfortable fireside, would lose half of their interest.
1859 W. Collins Queen of Hearts I. 9 My brothers had made my place ready for me by their fireside.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 67/2 The winged chair moved into its rightful place by the fireside.
1974 W. Foley Child in Forest 21 Sometimes our laughter brought Mam away from the fireside.
2005 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 10 Feb. 17/4 A storytelling Irishwoman who thrilled and terrified her children by the fireside.
2. In extended use. Cf. hearth n.1 2.† b. Those who sit round a person's fire or hearth; one's family or household. Obsolete.
a. The fireside as a symbol of home and domestic life.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [noun] > home > hearth or fire symbolic of
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ingle-side?a1750
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1613 W. B. tr. J. de Meung Dodechedron of Fortune 141 'Tis not likely that good should him betide, That dare not venture from his fire side.
1649 S. Rutherford Let. 14 Aug. in Joshua Redivivus (1664) ii. 550 Truly to me your case is more comfortable, then if the fire-side were well plenished with ten children.
1774 W. Cole Let. 18 Nov. in H. Walpole Corr. (1937) I. 348 I stay here about ten days longer, and then get, I hope, to my own fireside at Milton.
1778 S. O'Halloran Gen. Hist. Ireland iii. iii. 97 They were under no necessity of flying from their fire-sides and houshold-gods, to seek protection in foreign climates.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 149 They would fight manfully for their shops and firesides.
1894 Daily News 6 June 6/4 The English are regarded as the nation most appreciatory of the home, the fireside.
1920 Engin. News-Record 9 Dec. 1149/1 The battling armies, Doughboys, Tommies, Fritz and others returned to their own unscathed firesides.
2009 Independent 4 Feb. 5/1 (headline) Icy Britain takes a second ‘snow day’ by the fireside.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [noun] > family or household
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houseeOE
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family circle1768
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant by type of accommodation > [noun] > inhabitant of house > household
hirdc888
houseeOE
houseshipOE
hinehedea1300
meiniec1300
ménagec1325
householda1382
family1452
fireside1686
mainpast1865
1686 H. Higden Mod. Ess. 13th Satyr Juvenal 43 Himself with his whole Fire-side, At once for an example dy'd, Together with Remote Relations, Unto the Third, Fourth Generations.
1721 Coll. Polit. Lett. London Jrnl. 1720 13 He has a numerous Fireside of squabbling Brats.
1723 A. Pope Corr. (1956) II. 162 Enjoy your own Fire-side..that is, all those of your Family who make it pleasing to sit and spend whole wintry Months together.
1785 F. Burney Let. 3 Jan. in Diary & Lett. (1904) II. 287 A very happy new year to you and your fireside.
1839 F. Reynolds Let. 13 May in A. Bunn Stage (1840) III. vi. 218 For so many years he formed a part of my fireside.
Compounds
General attributive.
a. With the sense ‘situated or occurring by the fireside; suitable for the fireside; (hence) domestic, homely’.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [adjective] > of or belonging to home
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householdc1384
meniala1387
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householdy1863
hearthrug1864
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [adjective] > situated at fireside
fireside1740
1740 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 137 I own such a downright fire-side epistle from her disappointed me, though I wish all her family well, and am glad to hear they are so.
1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 119 The Fire-side Chair, still set, but vacant still.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge i. 232 The fireside group.
1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 174 The simple confidence, the fireside plainness, with which Mr. Lincoln always addresses himself to the reason of the American people.
1883 H. James En Province in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 180/1 The sixty years that preceded the French Revolution were the golden age of fireside talk.
1926 R. Macaulay Crewe Train ii. x. 196 Her fireside chats about the characters and intimate histories of her friends and relations were famed in London.
1966 Daily Tel. 19 Dec. 9/4 On view at all the cosiest fireside parties.
1989 Woman's Realm 11 Apr. 37/2 She removes the tongs from the fireside set.
1995 Independent 12 May 25/1 Binchy writes 600-page doorstoppers, beach books, fireside books.
b. Originally U.S. Designating a radio or television address by a politician, delivered in a friendly informal manner. Frequently in fireside chat.First used in this context with reference to a series of radio addresses given by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945); the first such address was broadcast on 12 March 1933.
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society > communication > broadcasting > radio broadcasting > [adjective] > type of programme
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1933 N.Y. Times 5 May 2/5 President Roosevelt will address the nation by radio at 9:45 o'clock Sunday night, reviewing in a ‘fireside talk’ the achievements of two months of his administration.
1933 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 15 May 6/4 The president's latest fireside chat with the American people.
1939 Ann. Reg. 1938 301 In a ‘fireside’ radio talk he [sc. Franklin D. Roosevelt] announced that the Administration would initiate a 4 million dollars ‘spending and lending’ programme.
1945 Chronol. Internat. Events & Documents (Royal Institute Internat. Affairs) 1 143 Lord Halifax, in a ‘fireside’ broadcast, said that Britain's economic situation was serious, but not desperate.
1966 Observer 7 Aug. 28/4 Fireside chats from Number 10 Downing Street.
1992 H. Robertson On Hill 138 They will not make ‘home videos’ for the MPs or record their fireside chats for their constituents; that is done by a private cable company.
1998 Hobart (Tasmania) Mercury (Nexis) 11 Aug. Clinton could make a fireside plea for forgiveness and hope his numbers hold up.
Derivatives
fireˈsider n. a person who sits by the fireside.
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1811 W. Hazlitt in Reflector 2 403 No true Firesider can dislike an hour so composing to his thoughts and so cherishing to his whole faculties.
1905 E. Thomas in R. Fowler et al. Beautiful Wales 83 One of the most inspiriting of our firesiders at the farmhouse is a young schoolmaster named Azariah John Pugh.
1996 Hobart (Tasmania) Mercury (Nexis) 20 Aug. If the firesiders are still reluctant [to let the dog in] he resorts to shoulder charges.
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1845 L. Hunt in Ainsworth's Mag. 7 93 Will my lord tell his slave, What concert 'twould please his Firesideship to have?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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