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:
verb
stoves
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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