A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.
The place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos, fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.
The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.
Home or family life.
A fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.
An emotional or circumstantial "place" having specified advantages, qualities etc. (now only in phrases).
The position or function (of someone or something), as taken on by a successor.
One's partner in a romantic relationship.