chimney en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈt͡ʃɪməni/ (UK, US, proscribed)
- /ˈt͡ʃɪmni/ (UK, US)
- (US) audio
Etymology
From Middle English chymeneye, chymneye, chymene, from Old French cheminee, from Late Latin camīnāta, from Latin camīnus, from Ancient Greek κάμῑνος (kámīnos, “furnace”). Doublet of chimenea.
Meanings
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A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon- or hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.
Our chimney was a square hole in the roof: it was but a little part of the smoke that found its way out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us coughing and piping the eye.
1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:The external aspect of the oficina was not unlike that of a north-country coal or iron mine—tall chimneys and machinery, corrugated iron buildings, offices and houses, the shanties of workmen, a high bank of refuse.
1890, William Howard Russell, “Iquique to the Pampas”, in A Visit to Chile and the Nitrate Fields of Tarapacá, Etc., London: J[ames] S[prent] Virtue & Co., […], page 171:Witches always anointed themselves with ointments before departing up the chimney to their Sabbaths.
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112:
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The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
By next winter he was spending every evening poring over the work of Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné on the French Reformation by the light of a little oil lamp, with a tiny cistern the size of an orange and no chimney[.]
1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 22:
- (UK) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
- A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
- (euphemistic, vulgar) A vagina.
- (Northern-Ireland, slang) A black eye; a shiner.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| chimnies | Number=Plur | archaic | lexicographic |
| chimley | alternative, dialectal | lexicographic | |
| chimbley | alternative, dialectal | lexicographic | |
| chimneys | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
chimney pot · chimney-piece · chimney-sweeper · chimney piece · chimney sweeper · chimney board · chimneyful · chimney-duty · chimney flashing · chimney-breast · chimneylike · chimney corner · fairy chimney · chimney balloon · chimney fire · chimney swallow · chimney flute · Chimney Rock · chimney money · chimney-money · chimney cake · Welsh chimney · chimney campanula · chimney cap · smoke like a chimney · chimney-glass · chimney sweep's carcinoma · chimney stack · sweep-chimney · chimney stalk · chimneyscape · chimney-corner · chimney sweep · chimney can · chimney hook · chimneypiece · pie chimney · chimneyless · chimney-pot hat · chimney-sweep · chimney sweep's cancer · chimney swift · chimney effect · chimney breast
Descendants
ചിമ്മിനി · চিমনি · shimne · chìmìni
Synonyms
Translations (220)
uz truba (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · uk дима́р (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · fr cheminée (UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive) · nl spleet (narrow cleft in a rock face) · hi चिमनी (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · hu kéménycső (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · zza loce (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · tg дудбаро (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ru расще́лина (narrow cleft in a rock face) · lb Kamäin (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · mn яндан (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · lt kaminas (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · cs cylindr (glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp) · hu kéménykürtő (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ceb simaniya (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · fa-ira دودْکِش (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · be дымахо́д (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · fo skorsteinur (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ka კვამლსადენი (glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp) · ru труба́ (UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive) · ms serombong (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · it ciminiera (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ru дымова́я труба́ (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ru труба́ (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · fi savupiippu (UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive) · cmn 煙囪 /烟囱 (narrow cleft in a rock face) · pt chaminé (UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive) · la fūmārium (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · chr ᎠᎱᏣᏬᎳᏛᎢ (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · es chimenea (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · uz moʻri (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · bn চিমনি (glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp) · nrf cheunm'née (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · de Spalte (narrow cleft in a rock face) · sco lum (UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive) · pl dymnik (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · sh dȋmnjāk (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · fi savukanava (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · nb pipe (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · gu ચીમની (glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp) · uk бо́вдур (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · th ปล่องควัน (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ky чыккыч (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · cmn 煙囪 /烟囱 (UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive) · yi קוימען (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · mi timera (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · dta xolly (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ga múchán (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ja 煙突 (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · pt manga (glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp) · kk мұржа (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · nl lampenkap (glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp) · bg ла́мпено шише́ (glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp) · gl tamboira (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ga gloine lampa (glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp) · gl chaminea (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ga simléar (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · cy ffynnel (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · is skorsteinn (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · hu cilinder (glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp) · kum тюнгюлюк (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · sw dohani (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · my ခေါင်းတိုင် (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · pt chaminé (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · hu kürtő (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ta புகைப்போக்கி (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ka ბუხარი (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · it bulbo (glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp) · it camino (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · sh òdžak (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · alt тӱндӱк (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · th ปล่อง (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · da skorsten (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · hu olajlámpaüveg (glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp) · tg дудкаш (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · sl dimnik (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · mi putaauahi (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · be ко́мін (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · sl dimnik (UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive) · lv dūmenis (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ml പുകക്കുഴൽ (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ga toiteachán (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ba мөрйә (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · gu ધુમાડિયું (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · vec camin (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · is strompur (UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive) · fi öljylampun lasi (glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp) · ru ла́мповое стекло́ (glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp) · ro horn (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · lo ປ່ອງໄຟ (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · de Kamin (glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp) · ro fumar (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ur چِمْنی (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · cmn 玻璃燈罩 /玻璃灯罩 (glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp) · mi tumera (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · mi timera (UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive) · de Schornstein (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ru дымохо́д (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · sq oxhak (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ur دُود کَش (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · bn চিমনি (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ar مَدْخَنَة (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · nb skorstein (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · lv skurstenis (germanism) (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · nrf chimnee (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · bg коми́н (narrow cleft in a rock face) · sms reä´ppen (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · mi putaauahi (UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive) · fi liekkilasi (glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp) · nrf chim'naïe (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · mk о́џак (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · uk димова́ труба́ (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · de Schlot (UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive) · fur čhamìn (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · gl fumeira (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · it fumaiolo (glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp) · el φουγάρο (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · prs دُودْکَش (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · sh ди̑мња̄к (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · uk димохі́д (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · gl paraña (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · nl schouw (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · cmn 煙窗 /烟窗 (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · is reykháfur (UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive) · gl cheminea (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · he ארובה \ אֲרֻבָּה (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · sco lum (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · sh о̀џак (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ko 굴뚝 (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ota اوجاق (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · av кӏкӏуйтӏала (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · th ปล่องไฟ (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ro coș (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · tk truba (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ga simléar lampa (glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp) · mn камин зүүх (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · vo cim (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · cs komín (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · fur cjamin (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · bg коми́н (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · is reykháfur (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · de Esse (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · hu kémény (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · de Schlot (narrow cleft in a rock face) · ja 煙出し (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · nl schoorsteen (UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive) · gu ચીમની (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · dlm camain (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · nl schoorsteen (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · os фӕздӕгдзон (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · sk komín (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · cmn 煙囪裂口 /烟囱裂口 (narrow cleft in a rock face) · gl troneira (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · de Rauchfang (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · el καπνοδόχος (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ota شیشه (glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp) · mnc ᡥᡡᠯᠠᠨ (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · sms truuba (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · hi धुआँकश (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · grc κάπνη (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · hu kémény (UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive) · ky мор (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · hy ծխնելույզ (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · cmn 煙囪 /烟囱 (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · tyv ыш үндүрер хоолай (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · is strompur (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · fi savupiippu (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · tyv хоолай (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · fi kuilu (narrow cleft in a rock face) · el καμινάδα (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · la camīnus (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · da skorstenspibe (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · tl pausukan (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · mni ꯃꯩꯈꯨꯊꯣꯡ (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ka საკვამლე მილი (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · cmn 煙筒 /烟筒 (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · eo kamentubo (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ur دُھواں کَش (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ta புகைப்போக்கி (UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive) · nb skorstein (UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive) · af skoorsteen (UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive) · pl komin (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · az baca (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ky түтүк (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ro cămin (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ja 煙り出し (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · cs komín (UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive) · grc καπνοδόκη (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · de Schlot (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ast chimenea (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · fr cheminée (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · gd similear (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · de Kamin (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · lo ປ່ອງ (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · eo kameno (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · alt тӱӱнӱк (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · he מַעֲשֵׁנָה (UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive) · nrf chouque dé chimenaée (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · fi korsteeni (UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive) · it fumaiolo (UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive) · ka კვამლსადენი (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · pt chaminé (narrow cleft in a rock face) · hu lámpaüveg (glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp) · eu tximinia (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · et korsten (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ab ауаџьаҟ (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · af skoorsteen (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · id cerobong (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · gl parrumeira (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · fi korsteeni (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ta புகைக்கூண்டு (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · it camino (narrow cleft in a rock face) · vi ống khói (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · sv skorsten (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · alt труба (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ml ചിമ്മിനി (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ca xemeneia (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · ca xemeneia (narrow cleft in a rock face) · ka საკვამური (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue) · tr baca (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue)