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oven

Pronunciation: /ˈʌ.vn̩/

The English word “oven” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A chamber used for baking or heating.
  2. A very hot place.

verb

  1. To cook in an oven.

Etymology

From Middle English oven, from Old English ofn (“oven”), from Proto-West Germanic *ofn (“oven”), from Proto-Germanic *uhnaz, *uhwnaz (“oven”). Cognate with West Frisian ûne (“oven”), Dutch oven (“oven”), Low German Aven (“oven”), German Ofen (“oven”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål ovn (“oven”), Faroese ovnur (“oven”), Icelandic ofn (“oven”), Norwegian Nynorsk omn (“oven”), Swedish ugn (“oven”),…

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