stove

CEFRA1

/stəʊv/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A device used for cooking or heating.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.

Examples

  • A plastic dish will melt on the stove.

  • Anticipating a cold winter, we bought a bigger stove.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Also pronounced

  • /stoʊv/
  • /sʈəʋ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A stovetop, with hotplates.

  2. A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.

  3. A hothouse (heated greenhouse).

More examples

In context

  • 1815 Robertson Buchanan, Appendix to A Treatise on the Economy of Fuel, and Management of Heat, Especially as it Relates to Heating and Drying by Means of Steam. p. 309. [I]n the countries of modern Europe, the use of stoves prevail throughout the north; whil...

  • April 1, 1634, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, letter to the Lord Deputy When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the Parlour or Stove being near emptied, in came a Company of Musketeers.

  • to stove feathers

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Origin

noun

From Middle Dutch stove and/or Middle Low German stove (compare Dutch stoof (“foot stove”), German Low German Stuve, Stuuv), both from Proto-West Germanic *stubu (“heated room, bathroom, stove”), further origin uncertain. The Germanic words are very old, and are the source of the Slavic and Romance terms. It is often speculated that the Germanic terms were borrowed from Vulgar Latin *extūfa, *extūfāre (“to heat with steam”), from Latin ex- + *tūfus (“hot vapor”), from Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “fever”). Cognates Cognate with Old English stofa (“bathroom, bathhouse”), stufbæþ (“hot-air bath”), Old High German stuba (“heated room, bathroom”) (whence German Stube (“living room, room, parlou...