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Definition of 'stove'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) stove
a portable or fixed apparatus that furnishes heat for warmth or cooking and uses coal, oil, gas, wood, or electricity for fuel or power.

2. stove
a heated chamber or box for some special purpose, as firing pottery.

Etymology: (1425–75; (n.) late ME: sweat bath, heated room, prob. < MD, MLG, c. OE stofa, stofu heated room for bathing, OHG stuba, ON stofa; prob. Gmc borrowing < VL *extupa,*extūpa, n. der. of *extūpāre,*extūfāre to fill with vapor = L ex-ex -¹+ VL *-tūfāre < Gk t&ymacracute;phein to raise smoke, smoke)

Definition of 'stove'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) stove, kitchen stove, range, kitchen range, cooking stove
a kitchen appliance used for cooking food
"dinner was already on the stove"

2. (noun) stove
any heating apparatus

Definition of 'stove'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) stove
a piece of kitchen equipment used for cooking

Definition of 'stove'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) stove
a house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing house, or hothouse; a drying room; -- formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense, to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes or in the processes of the arts

2. (noun) stove
an apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes

3. stove
of Stave

4. stove
imp. of Stave

5. (verb) stove
to keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees

6. (verb) stove
to heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers

Translation of 'stove'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: an apparatus using coal, gas, electricity or other fuel, used for cooking, or for heating a room a gas/electric (cooking) stove; Put the saucepan on the stove.
Afrikaans: stoof	Arabic: مَوْقِد، مِدْفأَه، وِجاق	Bulgarian: пещ
Brazilian: fogão	Czech: kamna, sporák	German: der Ofen
Danish: komfur; ovn; kakkelovn	Greek: θερμάστρα, σόμπα, εστία (	Spanish: estufa, cocina, horno
Estonian: pliit, ahi	Farsi: اجاق خوراك پزي	Finnish: hella
French: cuisinière, poêle	Hebrew: תָנוּר	Hindi: स्टोव, चूल्हा, अंगीठी, गर
Croatian: štednjak	Hungarian: tűzhely; kályha	Indonesian: kompor
Icelandic: eldavél	Italian: stufa, fornello	Japanese: レンジ
Korean: 스토브, 난로	Lithuanian: viryklė, krosnis	Latvian: plīts; krāsns
Malay: dapur	Dutch: kachel, fornuis	Norwegian: komfyr
Polish: piec	Persian: اجاق خوراك پزي	Pashto: نغری، داش
Portuguese: fogão	Romanian: maşină de gătit; sobă	Russian: печь; (кухонная) плита
Slovak: pec, sporák	Slovenian: peč	Serbian: peć
Swedish: spis, kamin	Thai: เตาไฟ	Turkish: soba, ocak
Taiwanese: 爐(子)	Ukrainian: піч; кухонна плита	Urdu: چولہا
Vietnamese: bếp lò, lò sưởi	Chinese: 炉（子）
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