noun
stove
stohv
noun
1
An appliance used for cooking food, usually with hotplates or burners.
"She left the soup simmering on the stove."
2
A closed appliance that burns fuel to heat a room.
"They kept the cabin warm with a wood-burning stove."
How to Use Stove
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA cooking appliance, or a heating appliance that burns fuel like wood or gas.
Common pairings
wood-burning stove
on the stove
light the stove
Word Forms
stoved past tense, stoves plural, stoves singular
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Etymology
From Middle Dutch/Middle Low German stove, from a very old Germanic word for a heated room; it's related to German Stube ("room") and is the source of the word for "room" in several other languages too.