What part of speech is mantelpiece?

Mantelpiece can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

Inflections

Noun

What does mantelpiece mean?

Definitions

Noun

mantelpiece - shelf that projects from wall above fireplace; "in Britain they call a mantel a chimneypiece"

Examples of mantelpiece

#   Sentence  
1. noun It's on the mantelpiece.
2. noun Tom looked at the clock on the mantelpiece.
3. noun Tom took the framed photo off the mantelpiece and took a closer look at it.
4. noun Tom leaned against the mantelpiece.
5. noun I noticed that there was a picture of Tom on the mantelpiece.
6. noun Opposite the door was a showy fireplace, surmounted by a mantelpiece of imitation white marble.
7. noun “I observed the very instant that I entered the room that you have a portrait group of three ladies upon the mantelpiece, one of whom is undoubtedly yourself, while the others are so exceedingly like you that there could be no doubt of the relationship.” “Yes, you are quite right. Those are my sisters, Sarah and Mary.”.
8. noun All my suspicions rose into a fierce bitter flame when I saw that on the mantelpiece stood a copy of a full-length photograph of my wife, which had been taken at my request only three months ago.
9. noun It was a cosy, well-furnished apartment, with two candles burning upon the table and two upon the mantelpiece.
10. noun But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.
11. noun The rough-and-tumble work in Afghanistan, coming on the top of a natural Bohemianism of disposition, has made me rather more lax than befits a medical man. But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.
12. noun I distinctly remember hearing the clock on the mantelpiece strike two.
Sentence  
noun
It's on the mantelpiece.
Tom looked at the clock on the mantelpiece.
Tom took the framed photo off the mantelpiece and took a closer look at it.
Tom leaned against the mantelpiece.
I noticed that there was a picture of Tom on the mantelpiece.
Opposite the door was a showy fireplace, surmounted by a mantelpiece of imitation white marble.
“I observed the very instant that I entered the room that you have a portrait group of three ladies upon the mantelpiece, one of whom is undoubtedly yourself, while the others are so exceedingly like you that there could be no doubt of the relationship.” “Yes, you are quite right. Those are my sisters, Sarah and Mary.”.
All my suspicions rose into a fierce bitter flame when I saw that on the mantelpiece stood a copy of a full-length photograph of my wife, which had been taken at my request only three months ago.
It was a cosy, well-furnished apartment, with two candles burning upon the table and two upon the mantelpiece.
But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.
The rough-and-tumble work in Afghanistan, coming on the top of a natural Bohemianism of disposition, has made me rather more lax than befits a medical man. But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.
I distinctly remember hearing the clock on the mantelpiece strike two.

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