hearth



hearth and home

  (literary)
your family and home His first loyalties are to hearth and home.
See also: and, hearth, home

cricket on the hearth

A symbol of good luck and health. A cricket on the hearth has been a sign of household luck for millennia and in many cultures. Crickets were widely considered to bring good fortune as well as a kind of companionship. Representations of a cricket have long been included as a fireplace decoration. The expression “to find a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing of all” comes from Charles Dickens's novella, Cricket on the Hearth.
See also: cricket, hearth, on

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
August['ɔ:gəst]
EttaET-əEnglish
Anastasah-nah-STAHS (Bulgarian)Russian, Bulgarian
Jaga-Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian
Candidekawn-DEEDFrench
Modest-Russian (Archaic)