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Added 9 October 2026

stove

/stəʊv/ noun

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about stove at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
A device for heating food, a cooker.
A stovetop, with hotplates.

verb

To heat or dry, as in a stove.
to stove feathers
To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
to stove orange trees
To jam; to sprain.
to stove a finger

verb

simple past and past participle of stave

Origin

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”).

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