stove

I. stove¹ /stəʊv $ stoʊv/ BrE AmE noun [countable]
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Middle Dutch; Origin: Middle Low German, 'heated room', from Vulgar Latin extufa, from Greek typhein 'to smoke']
1. a piece of kitchen equipment on which you cook food in pots and pans, and that contains an ↑oven SYN cooker British English
on the stove
a pot of soup simmering on the stove
2. a thing used for heating a room or for cooking, which works by burning wood, coal, oil, or gas:
a wood-burning stove

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

stove

stove [stove stoves stoved stoving] [stəʊv] [stoʊv] noun
1. a piece of equipment that can burn various fuels and is used for heating rooms

• a gas/wood-burning stove

2. (especially NAmE) (BrE also cook·er) (NAmE also range) a large piece of equipment for cooking food, containing an oven and gas or electric rings on top
• She put a pan of water on the stove.
• (NAmE, BrE) Most people don't want to spend hours slaving over a hot stove (= cooking).
see also stave, stove, stove _v.
See also: cooker ▪ range
Word Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘sweating room’): from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German stove; perhaps related to the noun stew.
Example Bank:
• A pan was simmering on the stove.
• A pot of soup was cooking on the stove.
• Don't touch the stove! It's hot.
• I've been slaving over a hot stove all day for you!
• Most people don't want to spend hours slaving over a hot stove.
• There is no heating in the house apart from a small wood-burning stove.

• We cooked dinner outside the tent on a little paraffin stove.

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition

stove / stəʊv / / stoʊv / noun [ C ]

a piece of equipment that burns fuel or uses electricity in order to heat a place A2 mainly US a cooker

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

stove

/stoʊv/
(stoves)

A stove is a piece of equipment which provides heat, either for cooking or for heating a room.
She put the kettle on the gas stove.

N-COUNT

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary:

¹stove /ˈstoʊv/ noun, pl stoves [count]
1 chiefly US : a flat piece of kitchen equipment for cooking that usually has four devices (called burners) which become hot when they are turned on and that often is attached to an oven
• Is the stove on/off?
• She put the pan on the stove over medium heat.
• I cooked the burgers on the stove.
- called also (Brit) cooker,
- compare cooktop; see also cookstove
2 : a device that burns fuel for heating or cooking
• a wood-burning/gas stove
- see also potbellied stove
3 : an oven or furnace that is used for hardening, burning, or drying something (such as pottery) : kiln