Definition of "fireside" []

• The area immediately surrounding a fireplace or hearth. (noun)
• A home. (noun)
• At or as if at a fireside: a fireside chat. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Flaherty had chosen the remote town of Iqaluit, population 7,000, where temperatures can dip to 40 degrees below zero in February, to try to promote more informal discussions, which he dubbed fireside chats."
• "His own fireside is the best place for a man to-night, Campbell."
• "One – whom the boys still talked of, softly and tenderly, in fireside evening talks, when the winter winds came and the snow was falling – one only was ever spoken of by Guy as "sister.""