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

"Customers understand that it's a luxury dish," chef Tomoyuki Takashino said from behind the stove as he skewered an eel he had just killed and filleted.

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The pot itself is cast iron and can be used on the stove, along with the included fuel paste burner, which helps keep the cheese at the right temperature for enjoying.

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Penelope peeked into the pot on the stove—porridge with jam, excellent!—but turned her attention to the walls.

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With a pair of kitchen tongs, Simon lifted the cannibal book from a vat of bubbling liquid that sat upon a makeshift stove, fashioned out of Bunsen burners from the Swanburne laboratory.

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We have a beautiful black La Cornue stove and lots of marble.

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Related Words

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