stove

¹

[stohv]

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, stoving 

1. to treat with or subject to heat, as in a stove.

stove

²

[stohv]

verb

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

stove

¹

/ stəʊv /

noun

1. another word for cooker

2. any heating apparatus, such as a kiln

verb

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

2. to stew (meat, vegetables, etc)

stove

²

/ stəʊv /

verb

1. a past tense and past participle of stave

Word History and Origins

Origin of stove¹

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; bierstube ), Old Norse stofa; early Germanic borrowing < Vulgar Latin *extupa, *extūpa (> French étuve sweat room of a bath; stew ¹ ), 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 ( typhus ); alternatively explained as a native Germanic base, borrowed into Romance ( izba ); (v.) late Middle English stoven to subject to hot-air bath, derivative of the noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of stove¹

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

Example Sentences

“We would hide a stuffed animal, and then I would kind of give them hints, like, ‘It’s between the stove and the refrigerator,’” Arrell said.

From Los Angeles Times

MacLeod was jammed against a potbellied stove with a metal chimney that stuck out through the roof, making it the highest point in the Lower 48 states.

From Los Angeles Times

A potbellied stove washes its warmth over strutting men, women and children.

From Los Angeles Times

Once casseroles are in the oven and soups are humming on the stove, I clear scraps, load the dishwasher, and wipe counters.

From Salon

Inspired by that success, the singer has not one but two new albums cooking on the stove.

From BBC

Related Words

• boiler 
• cooker 
• heater 
• kiln 
• microwave 
• oven