oven
n. countablen. a closed box or space that you use for cooking or heating food. It is usually part of a stove or built into a kitchen wall.
n. an enclosed compartment used for heating, baking, or roasting food. It may be a standalone appliance or integrated into a larger cooking range.
I put the pizza in the oven to bake.
The recipe says to preheat the oven to two hundred degrees before you start mixing the ingredients.
Modern kitchens often feature convection ovens that use internal fans to circulate hot air, ensuring that pastries bake evenly without the need for constant rotation.
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”)). The modern pronunciation shows an sound change in which Middle English /ɔv/ is changed to /uv/; compare the phonetic development of Coventry and shovel.
Commonly used with the verbs 'preheat', 'bake', and 'roast'.