/ ˈʌvn; NAmE / noun
the part of a cooker / stove shaped like a box with a door on the front, in which food is cooked or heated :
Take the cake out of the oven.
a gas / an electric oven
a cool / hot / moderate oven
Open a window, it's like an oven in here!
—compare microwave
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IDIOMS
see bun
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WORD ORIGIN
Old English ofen , of Germanic origin; related to Dutch oven , German Ofen , from an Indo-European root shared by Greek ipnos .