stove

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[ stohv ]
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noun
  1. a portable or fixed apparatus that furnishes heat for warmth, cooking, etc., commonly using coal, oil, gas, wood, or electricity as a source of power.

  2. a heated chamber or box for some special purpose, as a drying room or a kiln for firing pottery.

verb (used with object),stoved, stov·ing.
  1. to treat with or subject to heat, as in a stove.

Origin of stove

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1425–75; (noun) late Middle English: sweat bath, heated room, probably <Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, cognate with Old English stofa, stofu heated room for bathing, Old High German stuba (German Stube room; cf. bierstube), Old Norse stofa;early Germanic borrowing <Vulgar Latin *extupa,*extūpa (>French étuve sweat room of a bath; cf. stew1), noun derivative of *extūpāre,*extūfāre to fill with vapor, equivalent to Latin ex-ex-1 + Vulgar Latin *-tūfāre<Greek tȳ́phein to raise smoke, smoke, akin to tŷphos fever (see typhus); alternatively explained as a native Germanic base, borrowed into Romance (cf. izba); (v.) late Middle English stoven to subject to hot-air bath, derivative of the noun

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Other definitions for stove (2 of 2)

stove2
[ stohv ]

verb
  1. a simple past tense and past participle of stave.

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British Dictionary definitions for stove (1 of 2)

stove1

/ (stəʊv) /


noun
  1. another word for cooker (def. 1)

  2. any heating apparatus, such as a kiln

verb(tr)
  1. to process (ceramics, metalwork, etc) by heating in a stove

  2. Scot to stew (meat, vegetables, etc)

Origin of stove

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Old English stofa bathroom; related to Old High German stuba steam room, Greek tuphos smoke

British Dictionary definitions for stove (2 of 2)

stove2

/ (stəʊv) /


verb
  1. a past tense and past participle of stave

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