I. stove 1 /stəʊv $ stoʊv/ BrE AmE noun [countable]
[ Date: 1400-1500 ; Language: Middle Dutch ; Origin: Middle Low German , 'heated room' , from Vulgar Latin extufa , from Greek typhein 'to smoke' ]
1 . a piece of kitchen equipment on which you cook food in pots and pans, and that contains an ↑ oven SYN cooker British English
on the stove
a pot of soup simmering on the stove
2 . a thing used for heating a room or for cooking, which works by burning wood, coal, oil, or gas:
a wood-burning stove
II. stove 2 BrE AmE
a past tense and past participle of ↑ stave 2