Stove Definition

stōv

stoves

noun

stoves

An apparatus using fuel or electricity for heating a room.

Webster's New World

An appliance using fuel or electricity for cooking.

Webster's New World

A device that produces heat for specialized, especially industrial, purposes.

American Heritage

A kiln.

American Heritage

Any heated chamber or room, as a kiln for drying manufactured articles.

Webster's New World

Synonyms:

Synonyms:
kitchen range
kitchen stove
cooking stove
range
oven
cooker
wood
stave
microwave
kiln
gas
heater
furnace
electric
coal

verb

stoves

Stave.

Webster's New World

To heat or dry, as in a stove.

To stove feathers.

Wiktionary

To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.

To stove orange trees.

Wiktionary

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Wiktionary

Simple past tense and past participle of stave.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Stove

Noun

Singular:

stove

Plural:

stoves

Origin of Stove

From Middle Dutch, from Middle Low German, from Old High German stubā, stupā (“heated room"), from Proto-Germanic *stubō (“room, living room, heated room"). Cognate with Old English stofa, stofu (“bathroom, bathhouse"), Old Norse stofa (whence Icelandic stofa (“living room"), Norwegian stove and Danish and Norwegian stue).

From Wiktionary
Middle English heated room probably from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch both probably from Vulgar Latin extūfa from extūfāre to heat with steam stew

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition