stove
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -əʊv
[edit] Etymology 1
Middle English, from Middle Dutch from Middle Low German from Old High German stuba, akin to Old Norse stofa (whence Icelandic stofa (“‘living room’”) and Danish and Norwegian stue).
[edit] Noun
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stove (plural stoves)
- A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
- A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
[edit] Translations
heater
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device for heating food
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[edit] Etymology 2
[edit] Verb
stove
- Simple past tense and past participle of stave.