COOKING STOVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cooking stove mean? 

• COOKING STOVE (noun)
  The noun COOKING STOVE has 1 sense:

1. a kitchen appliance used for cooking food

  Familiarity information: COOKING STOVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COOKING STOVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A kitchen appliance used for cooking food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cooking stove; kitchen range; kitchen stove; range; stove

Context example:

dinner was already on the stove

Hypernyms ("cooking stove" is a kind of...):

kitchen appliance (a home appliance used in preparing food)

Meronyms (parts of "cooking stove"):

grate; grating (a frame of iron bars to hold a fire)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cooking stove"):

charcoal burner (a stove that burns charcoal as fuel)

cookstove (a stove for cooking (especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove))

electric range (a kitchen range in which the heat for cooking is provided by electric power)

gas cooker; gas range; gas stove (a range with gas rings and an oven for cooking with gas)

potbelly; potbelly stove (a bulbous stove in which wood or coal is burned)

Primus; Primus stove (a portable paraffin cooking stove; used by campers)

spirit stove (a stove that burns a volatile liquid fuel such as alcohol)

 Context examples 

She likewise set up housekeeping in the sideboard, and managed a microscopic cooking stove with a skill that brought tears of pride to Hannah's eyes, while Demi learned his letters with his grandfather, who invented a new mode of teaching the alphabet by forming letters with his arms and legs, thus uniting gymnastics for head and heels.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)