fire screen

1. 1.

   a metal screen before an open fire for protection (especially against flying sparks)

   Synonymsfireguard

   Broaderscreen

Questions about fire screen

What does fire screen mean?

fire screen means "a metal screen before an open fire for protection (especially against flying sparks)".

What is another word for fire screen?

Close synonyms include fireguard. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fire screen a common word?

fire screen is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.