kiln
UK/kɪln//kɪln/
kiln noun: an oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.
Noun
kiln (plural kilns)
- An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.
- One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
Verb
kiln (third-person singular simple present kilns, present participle kilning, simple past and past participle kilned)
kiln meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
kiln in Hindi
- oven, furnace or heated chamber
- भट्ठा bhaṭṭhā, भट्ठी bhaṭṭhī
kiln in Tamil
- oven, furnace or heated chamber
- சூளை cūḷai
kiln in Marathi
- oven, furnace or heated chamber
- भट्टी bhaṭṭī
kiln in Urdu
- kiln
- تندور tandūr
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- kiln in Bengali
- ভাটি bhaṭi
- kiln in Telugu
- బట్టీ
- kiln in Malayalam
- ചൂള, ചൂളയടുപ്പ്, ചെങ്കൽചൂള
- kiln in Kannada
- ಆವಿಗೆ, ಒಲೆ, ಇಟ್ಟಿಗೆ ಗೂಡು, ಸುಣ್ಣದ ಗೂಡು
- kiln in Punjabi
- ਭੱਠੀ bhaṭṭhī
- kiln in Gujarati
- ભઠ્ઠી bhaṭhṭhī
- kiln in Sinhala
- උඳුන uⁿduna
- kiln in Arabic
- فُرْن furn
- kiln in Persian
- کوره kure, تون tun
- kiln in Thai
- เตาเผา dtao păo
- kiln in Vietnamese
- lò
Examples of kiln in a sentence
- We should soak the kiln at cone 9 for half an hour.
- After the pots have been glazed, they go back into the kiln for a second firing.
- The train crawled through an unlovely smokescape of towering chimneys and squatting kilns.
Forms of kiln
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | kilns |
| alternative form (rare) | kill |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | kilns |
| present participle | kilning |
| past participle | kilned |
| past | kilned |
Origin of kiln
From Middle English kilne, from Old English cyln, cylen, cylin (“large oven, kiln”), from Latin culīna (“kitchen, kitchen stove”). Middle English -ln(e) usually becomes modern -ll as in mill. The pronunciation /kɪln/ may be based on dialects in which this simplification did not take place, but it must have been at least reinforced by spelling pronunciation.
Words formed from kiln
Phrases with kiln
Words that rhyme with kiln
Questions about kiln
- What does kiln mean?
- Kiln means an oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.
- What is kiln in Hindi?
- Kiln in Hindi is भट्ठा (bhaṭṭhā), भट्ठी (bhaṭṭhī). See Kiln meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is kiln?
- Kiln can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce kiln?
- Kiln is pronounced /kɪln/ (UK).
- What is the plural of kiln?
- The plural of kiln is kilns.
Words near kiln in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: kiln (page history and authors); تندور (Urdu) (page history and authors); ভাটি (Bengali) (page history and authors); kiln (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kiln (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); kiln (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਭੱਠੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); උඳුන (Sinhala) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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