stove

¹ American  

[stohv] / stoʊv /

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 American  

[stohv] / stoʊv /

verb

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

---

stove ¹ British  

/ 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 British  

/ stəʊv /

verb

1. a past tense and past participle of stave

---

Etymology

Origin of stove

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

Example Sentences

Along with all the kit to consider for an overnight trip - including sleeping bags, a stove, food and clothes - Morag also had to pack eight nappies.

From BBC

Just before sunset, women gathered around small stoves.

From Barron's

"There is no-one to chop firewood for winter to heat our stoves," they added in an exchange shown on state TV.

From BBC

The other revelation, when I walked into my friend’s kitchen and saw two big pots on the stove?

From The Wall Street Journal

It’s also worth around $32,000 per customer gas meter in Orange Cove — more than enough for the community to install electric heat pumps, heat pump water heaters and induction stoves, zeroing out gas use.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

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