oven
Forms
- Plural
- ovens
- present (v1)
- oven
- past (v2)
- ovened
- past participle (v3)
- ovened
- present participle
- ovening
- 3rd person singular
- ovens
Definitions
1.A chamber used for baking or heating.
- You left the cake in the oven too long.
- There's bread in the oven.
2.A very hot place.(colloquial)
- The ballroom that evening was an absolute oven. I probably perspired more dancing then during the afternoon ballgame.
1.To cook in an oven.(colloquial)
- I'm gonna oven the pie for about 30 minutes, mate.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3395
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
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”)).