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Meaning of 'stove' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Stove
- of Stave
- imp. of Stave.
2 . Stove [ n.]
- 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.
- 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.
3 . Stove [ v. t.]
- To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees.
- To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.

Meaning of 'stove' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . stove [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a kitchen appliance used for cooking food
Example in sentence:
  • dinner was already on the stove

Nearby Words:

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