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FEYE-uh-plays/ˈfaɪəpleɪs/

A fireplace is the place in a wall of a room where you can have a fire. Sit by the fireplace; a gas fireplace. Countable: a fireplace. A radiator is metal and uses water or electricity; a fireplace is in the wall. Fire is the burning; fireplace is the place.

Meaning

A place in a wall where you can have a fire in a room.

Examples

• “We sat by the fireplace.”
• “Put the photo on the fireplace.”
• “The fireplace is not on today.”

Good to know

a fireplace (in the wall of a room). Contrast: radiator. Fire = the burning; fireplace = the place.

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