oven
UK/ˈʌ.vn̩/
oven noun: a chamber used for baking or heating.
Noun
oven (plural ovens)
- A chamber used for baking or heating.
- Baby I'm hot just like an oven / I need some lovin'1982, “Sexual Healing”, in Midnight Love, performed by Marvin Gaye
- A very hot place.
- The ballroom that evening was an absolute oven. I probably perspired more dancing then during the afternoon ballgame.2011, Vern Shutz, Memoirs of a Left Hander, page 96
Verb
oven (third-person singular simple present ovens, present participle ovening, simple past and past participle ovened)
- To cook in an oven.
- I'm gonna oven the pie for about 30 minutes, mate.
oven meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
oven in Hindi
- chamber used for baking or heating
- भट्ठी bhaṭṭhī, चूल्हा cūlhā, तन्दूर tandūr, तनूर tanūr
oven in Tamil
- chamber used for baking or heating
- அடுப்பு aṭuppu
oven in Marathi
- chamber used for baking or heating
- ओव्हन ovhan, भट्टी bhaṭṭī
oven in Urdu
- chamber used for baking or heating
- تَنْدُور tandūr, تَنُور tanūr
More languagesFewer languages
- oven in Bengali
- চুলা cula, তন্দুর tondur, উনান unan, আখা akha
- oven in Telugu
- పొయ్యి poyyi
- oven in Malayalam
- ആഹാരം പാകം ചെയ്യാനുള്ള ചൂള
- oven in Kannada
- ಒಲೆ, ಗೂಡೊಲೆ
- oven in Gujarati
- ચૂલો cūlo, ભાડ bhāḍ
- oven in Odia
- ଚିତା citā
- oven in Sanskrit
- कन्दु kandu
- oven in Sinhala
- අවන් awan
- oven in Assamese
- চৌকা souka, আখা akha, ঘৰা ghora, অভেন obhen
- oven in Nepali
- चुल्हो culho
- oven in Pashto
- تنور tanúr
- oven in Tagalog
- hurno
- oven in Arabic
- فُرْن furn, تَنُّور tannūr
- oven in Malay
- ketuhar
- oven in Indonesian
- oven, tanur, pemanggang
- oven in Thai
- เตาอบ dtao-òp
- oven in Vietnamese
- lò, lò nướng
- oven in Myanmar
- ပေါင်းဖို paung:hpui
Examples of oven in a sentence
- She turned the gas on, put the potatoes on, then lit the oven.
- The heat from the open oven burned the air around me.
- It’s common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
Forms of oven
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | ovens |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | ovens |
| present participle | ovening |
| past participle | ovened |
| past | ovened |
Origin of oven
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”), Finnish uuni (“oven”), Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 (auhns, “oven”)), probably from a Proto-Indo-European *aukʷ- (“cooking pot”), *Hukʷ-, *ukʷnos (compare Sanskrit उखा (ukhā, “boiler, cauldron”), Albanian anë (“vessel, cooker”), Latin aulla, olla (“pot, jar”), Ancient Greek ἰπνός (ipnós, “oven, furnace”)). The modern pronunciation shows a sound change in which Middle English /ɔv/ is changed to /uv/; compare the phonetic development of Coventry and shovel.
Words formed from oven
- bakeoven
- bake oven
- Barnstaple oven
- black oven
- bottle oven
- camp oven
- cloam oven
- clome oven
- coke oven gas
- convection microwave oven
- convection oven
- conventional oven
- countertop oven
- cremation oven
- crystal oven
- Dutch oven
- fan-assisted oven
- fan oven
- glost oven
- halogen oven
- have a bun in the oven
- induction oven
- in the oven
- microwave oven
- need more time in the oven
- ovenable
- ovenbird
- oven bottom
- oven bread
- oven chip
- oven dish
- oven dodger
- ovenette
- ovenful
- oven glove
- ovenless
- oven-like
- ovenlike
- oven magnet
- oven mitt
- ovenproof
- oven-proof
- oven rack
- oven-ready
- oven ring
- oven tit
- ovenware
- ovenwood
- pizza oven
- reel oven
- roaster oven
- Russian oven
- science oven
- slow oven
- snowball's chance in an oven
- toaster oven
Phrases with oven
Words that rhyme with oven
Questions about oven
- What does oven mean?
- Oven means a chamber used for baking or heating.
- What is oven in Hindi?
- Oven in Hindi is भट्ठी (bhaṭṭhī), चूल्हा (cūlhā), तन्दूर (tandūr). See Oven meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is oven?
- Oven can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce oven?
- Oven is pronounced /ˈʌ.vn̩/ (UK).
- What is the plural of oven?
- The plural of oven is ovens.
Words near oven in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: oven (page history and authors); oven (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); oven (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ચૂલો (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଚିତା (Odia) (page history and authors); कन्दु (Sanskrit) (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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