stove
UK /stəʊv/ · US /stoʊv/ noun, verb
Also a form of stave
Forms stoves stoving stoved
- noun A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
- noun A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
- noun A stovetop, with hotplates.
- noun (chiefly UK) A hothouse (heated greenhouse).
- noun (dated) A house or room artificially warmed or heated.
- verb (transitive) To heat or dry, as in a stove. “to stove feathers”
- verb (transitive) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat. “to stove orange trees”
- verb (transitive) To jam; to sprain. “to stove a finger”
Synonyms
Etymology
From Middle Dutch stove and/or Middle Low German stove (compare Dutch stoof (“foot stove”), German Low German Stuve, Stuuv), both from Proto-West Germanic *stubu (“heated room, bathroom, stove”), further origin uncertain. 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”).
Cognate with Old English stofa (“bathroom, bathhouse”), stufbæþ (“hot-air bath”), Old High German stuba (“heated room, bathroom”) (whence German Stube (“living room, room, parlour”), Hungarian szoba (“room”)), Old Norse stofa (whence Danish stue (“living room, room”), Faroese stova (“living room, house”), Icelandic stofa (“living room”), Norwegian Bokmål stue (“cottage, cabin, living room”), Norwegian Nynorsk stove (“cottage, cabin, living room”), Swedish stuga (“cottage, cabin, living room”)).
Webster’s 1913
- noun A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing house, or hothouse; a drying room; --formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense, to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes or in the processes of the arts.
- noun An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes. Cooking stove, a stove with an oven, opening for pots, kettles, and the like, --used for cooking.
- verb To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees. Bacon.
- verb To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.
Etymology [D. stoof a foot stove, originally, a heated room, a room for a bath; akin to G. stube room, OHG. stuba a heated room, AS. stofe, Icel. stofa a room, bathing room, Sw. stufva, stuga, a room, Dan. stue; of unknown origin. Cf. Estufa, Stew, Stufa.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “stove”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details