stove
Plural: stoves
Noun
- An apparatus for heating or cooking, fueled by various means.
- a kitchen appliance used for cooking food
- "dinner was already on the stove"
- any heating apparatus
- 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
- furnish with staves
- burst or force (a hole) into something
- To heat or dry, as in a stove.
- To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
- To jam; to sprain.
- simple past and past participle of stave
Examples
- His word ’STOVE’ was placed perfectly to extend into ’OVEN’ later.
- to stove a finger
- to stove feathers
- to stove orange trees
Origin / Etymology
From Middle Dutch stove and/or Middle Low German stove (compare Dutch stoof, German Low German Stuve, Stuuv), both from Proto-West Germanic *stubu, *stubō, from Proto-Germanic *stubō (“room, living room, heated room”), further origin uncertain. Cognate with Old English stofa (“bathroom, bathhouse”), stufbæþ (“hot-air bath”), Old High German stuba (whence German Stube), Old Norse stofa (whence Icelandic stofa (“living room”), Norwegian stove, Danish and Norwegian stue and Swedish stuga). 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”).
Doublet of stufa.
Scrabble Score: 8
stove: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordstove: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
stove: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary