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- [stohv]
- /stoʊv/
- /stəʊv/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [stohv]
- /stoʊv/
Definitions of stove word
- noun stove one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel. 1
- noun stove a stick, rod, pole, or the like. 1
- noun stove a rung of a ladder, chair, etc. 1
- noun stove Prosody. a verse or stanza of a poem or song. the alliterating sound in a line of verse, as the w- sound in wind in the willows. 1
- noun stove Music. staff1 (def 10). 1
- verb with object stove to break in a stave or staves of (a cask or barrel) so as to release the wine, liquor, or other contents. 1
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Origin of stove
First appearance:
before 1425 One of the 25% oldest English words
1425-75; (noun) late Middle English: sweat bath, heated room, probably < Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, cognate with Old English stofa, stofu heated room for bathing, Old High German stuba (German Stube room; cf. bierstube), Old Norse stofa; early Germanic borrowing < Vulgar Latin *extupa, *extūpa (> French étuve sweat room of a bath; cf. stew1), noun derivative of *extūpāre, *extūfāre to fill with vapor, equivalent to Latin ex- ex-1 + Vulgar Latin *-tūfāre < Greek tȳ́phein to raise smoke, smoke, akin to tŷphos fever (see typhus); alternatively explained as a native Germanic base, borrowed into Romance (cf. izba); (v.) late Middle English stoven to subject to hot-air bath, derivative of the noun
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Parts of speech for Stove
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adjective
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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stove popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 96% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
stove usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for stove
noun stove
- boiler — A boiler is a device which burns gas, oil, electricity, or coal in order to provide hot water, especially for the central heating in a building.
- cinerator — an incinerator.
- convector — a space-heating device from which heat is transferred to the surrounding air by convection
- cremator — a furnace for cremating corpses
- fastball — a pitch thrown at or near a pitcher's maximum velocity.
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