Stove

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /stəʊv/
• GenAm IPA: /stoÊŠv/
• Rhymes: -əʊv

From Middle Dutch and/or Middle Low German stove (cf. Dutch stoof), possibly from Proto-Germanic *stubō ("room, living room, heated room"), or borrowed from Romance. Cognate with Old High German stuba (whence German Stube), Old English stofa, stofu ("bathroom, bathhouse"), Old Norse stofa (whence Icelandic stofa ("living room"), Norwegian stove and Danish and Norwegian stue and Swedish stuga).

Full definition of stove

Noun

1. A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
• 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 8, We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.
2. A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
3. (chiefly UK) A hothouse (in which plants are kept).
• 1850, M. A. Burnett, Plantae utiliores: or illustrations of useful plants, employed in the arts and medicine, part 8:There existed only one specimen of this sacred tree in all Mexico, at least to the knowledge of the Mexicans; ... In spite, however, of the firmest convictions of the indivisibility of this tree — the Manitas, as it is commonly called — it has been propagated by cuttings, some of which are at this moment thriving in some of the larger stoves of our modern collectors.
• 1854, in The Horticultural Review and Botanical Magazine, volume 4, page 208:Let but these facts lie contrasted with the treatment they usually receive in the stoves of this country, and the reason why they never grow to any considerable size, attain to any degree of perfection, or flourish to any extent ...
4. (dated) A house or room artificially warmed or heated.
• Earl of StraffordWhen most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the parlour or stove being nearly emptied, in came a company of musketeers.
• BurtonHow tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole!

Derived terms

• hobo stove

Verb

1. (transitive) To heat or dry, as in a stove.to stove feathers
2. (transitive) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.to stove orange trees

Verb

1. stove

   (past of stave)

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