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stove
What does stove mean?
stove (noun): a kitchen appliance used for cooking food.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use stove in a sentence?
- Dinner was already on the stove. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce stove?
/stoʊv/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does stove come from?
From Middle Dutch stove and/or Middle Low German stove (compare Dutch stoof (“foot stove”), German Low German Stuve, Stuuv), both from Proto-West Germanic *stubu (“heated room, bathroom, stove”), further origin uncertain.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “stove” mean?
a kitchen appliance used for cooking food
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a cooperative unit (especially in sports)
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a motive for an action or a determination
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a flow of electricity through a conductor
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