hearth

hearth and home

(literary)

your family and home His first loyalties are to hearth and 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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Zavier	ZAY-vee-ər, ZAYV-yər	English (Modern)
Susanna	soo-ZAHN-nah (Italian), SOO-sahn-nah (Finnish), soo-ZAN-ə (English)	Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Dutch, English, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Old Church Slavic
Tsubame	tsoo-bah-me	Japanese (Rare)
Sabri	-	Arabic
Minh	-	Vietnamese
Alphaios	-	Biblical Greek