oven

Pluralovens

Formsovens, ovening, ovened

1. 1
   nouncountable

   A closed box that gets hot inside, used to bake or heat food.

   Like a hot box that cooks your food with heat all around it.

   She put the cake in the oven for thirty minutes.

   The oven was still warm from breakfast.

2. 2
   nouncolloquialfigurativelycountable

   Any place that feels very hot, like a small room on a summer day.

   Like sitting inside a hot box with no way to cool down.

   By noon the car had turned into an oven.

   The attic becomes an oven during summer.

   Similarfurnace, sauna, inferno, hothouse

   Oppositeicebox, freezer

3. 3
   verbcolloquialtransitive

   To cook food by heating it inside an oven.

   You can oven the fish for about twenty minutes.

   She ovened the chicken instead of frying it.

   Similarbake, roast

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