STOVE
What does "STOVE" mean?
An apparatus for cooking or heating that uses gas, electricity, wood, or coal.
Meanings
- A kitchen appliance with burners or a heated surface used for cooking. She left the soup simmering on the stove.
- An enclosed heater that burns wood or coal to warm a room. The cabin's only heat came from a cast-iron stove.
Did you know?
- Around 1742 Benjamin Franklin designed a metal-lined stove that gave more heat with less wood - and refused to patent it, saying we should freely share inventions that benefit others.
Word origin
From Old English and Middle Low German 'stove', meaning a heated room or bathhouse, related to German 'Stube' (a heated room); the meaning narrowed over time to the heating apparatus itself.
Remember it
STOVE once meant a warm room - the same root as German 'Stube'; picture stepping into a cozy stove-warm space.
A little poem
Blue ring of low flame-
the kitchen window weeps steam
while the snow keeps on.
haiku
Wordplay
- I told my stove a joke and it just burned. Tough crowd, low heat.
What it teaches
Warmth shared without a patent on it spreads further than any invention kept locked away.
Quick facts
What does STOVE mean?
An apparatus for cooking or heating that uses gas, electricity, wood, or coal.
Is STOVE a valid word?
Yes — STOVE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is STOVE?
STOVE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does STOVE come from?
From Old English and Middle Low German 'stove', meaning a heated room or bathhouse, related to German 'Stube' (a heated room); the meaning narrowed over time to the heating apparatus itself.
What can STOVE teach us?
Warmth shared without a patent on it spreads further than any invention kept locked away.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.