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noun
a chamber or compartment, as in a stove, for baking, roasting, heating, drying, etc.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English ofen; cognate with German Ofen, Old Norse ofn
before 900; Middle English; Old English ofen; cognate with German Ofen, Old Norse ofn
Related forms
ov·en·like, adjective
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
oven
O.E. ofen "furnace, oven," from P.Gmc. *ukhnaz (cf. O.Fris., Du. oven, Ger. Ofen, O.N. ofn, O.Swed. oghn, Goth. auhns), from PIE *aukw- "cooking pot" (cf. Skt. ukhah "pot, cooking pot," L. aulla "pot," Gk. ipnos), originally, perhaps, "something hollowed out." The oven-bird (1825) so called because of
EXPANDthe shape of its nest. In slang, of a woman, to have (something) in the oven "to be pregnant" is attested from 1962.
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