stove

Pronunciation: /stəʊv/

The English word “stove” has 8 meanings listed here.

noun

A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
A stovetop, with hotplates.
A hothouse (heated greenhouse).
A house or room artificially warmed or heated.

verb

To heat or dry, as in a stove.
To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
To jam; to sprain.

Etymology

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,…

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