oven

Meaning
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- A chamber used for baking or heating.
- (colloquial) A very hot place.
Synonyms
fire-place
kitchen stove
baking oven
cooking stove
calorstat
cabinet drier
bake oven
iron box
mill furnace
reheating funace
heating-furnace
drying oven baker
constant temperature cabinet
thermostated container
bake out furnace
dry oven
earth oven
baking box
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʌ.vn̩/
Etymology
From Middle English oven, from Old English ofn, from Proto-West Germanic *ofn, from Proto-Germanic *uhnaz, *uhwnaz (compare Dutch oven, Low German Aven, West Frisian ûne, German Ofen, Danish ovn, Norwegian Bokmål ovn, Norwegian Nynorsk omn, Swedish ugn, Icelandic ofn, Finnish uuni, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 (auhns), probably from a Proto-Indo-European *aukʷ- (“cooking pot”), *Hukʷ-, *ukʷnos (compare Sanskrit उखा (ukhā), Albanian anë, Latin aulla, olla, Ancient Greek ἰπνός (ipnós)).
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