cookstove
2
4.1
- noun
- /ˈkʊkˌstoʊv/
- Archaic
:
cocina de leña
- Once they had a cabin with a big black Monarch cookstove.
- improved cookstove
- clean cookstoves
Examples
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The woman walked carefully to the cookstove and opened the door without gloves.
Fiction book (1994) -
A majestic wood-burning cookstove threw out heat.
Fiction book (1999) -
As for the old wood cookstove, he loved it.
Fiction book (1998) -
Rachel and Martha Elizabeth were standing together by the cookstove, facing him.
Fiction book (1992) -
In the center was a small cookstove, with something flat and gray sizzling on the grillwork at its top.
Fiction book (1997) -
In one room, there is a wood-burning cookstove, an Ashley heat stove, a table, a bunk, and a small window.
Fiction book (1993) -
The cookstove is cold, and the fireplace has a heap of ash, but no embers.
Fiction book (1992) -
Mrs. Upchurch had cooked collards in a big black pot on the rusty old iron cookstove and baked sweet potatoes.
Fiction book (1998) -
Laura heated the milk on the cookstove as she put the finishing touches on dinner.
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We think everything tastes better from the cookstove oven, but pizza is absolutely our favorite.
Synonyms
110
1.0
A kitchen appliance with hot burners used to cook food
82
3.5
A large kitchen stove with burners and an oven for cooking
32
1.0
A device like an oven or stove used for cooking food
7
2.0
A stove that burns wood to heat a room or cook food
5
1.1
A cooker with burners and an oven that uses gas to cook food
3
3.4
A stove that burns wood to heat a room or cook food
2
2.1
A cooking stove with gas burners and an oven
1
1.0
A kitchen appliance with hot burners on top and an oven below for cooking food
1
1.0
A kitchen appliance that cooks food, usually with gas or electricity
1
3.0
A kitchen stove that uses electricity to make heat for cooking
1
1.8
A kitchen stove that uses gas to cook food
A small stove that burns charcoal for heat or cooking
A stove that uses oil like kerosene for heating or cooking
A small portable cooker that burns alcohol for cooking and heating
A simple heater that burns sawdust to warm a room
How Modern
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cookstove comes from the two simple parts cook and stove, where cook means 'to prepare food' and stove means a thing or place that gives heat. So a cookstove is simply a stove used to 'cook' food, often the wood- or coal-burning kind that also heats the home.