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ovens

ovens is the plural of oven.

ovens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of oven.

Meaning of oven

Noun

oven (plural ovens)

  1. 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
  2. (colloquial, figuratively) 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

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Proper noun capitalized: Ovens

Ovens

  1. A surname.
  2. A town on the Ovens River in Alpine Shire, Victoria, Australia. The river was named after John Ovens.
  3. A small village west of the city of Cork, County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref W 5570).

Phrases with ovens

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Questions about ovens

What does ovens mean?
Ovens means a surname.
What is ovens the plural of?
Ovens is the plural of oven.
What part of speech is ovens?
Ovens is a proper noun.

Words near ovens in the dictionary

  1. ovenfuls
  2. ovening
  3. ovenless
  4. ovenlike
  5. ovenproof
  6. ovens
  7. ovensful
  8. Ovenstone
  9. Ovenstones
  10. ovenware
  11. ovenwares

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ovens (page history and authors); Ovens (page history and authors); oven (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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