COOKING STOVE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A kitchen appliance used for cooking food

Example:

dinner was already on the stove

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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)