oven

 
Pronunciation: /ˈʌv(ə)n/

noun

  • 1an enclosed compartment, usually part of a cooker, for cooking and heating food: bake the dish in a preheated oven figurative the house was like an oven when I came in
  • a small furnace or kiln.
  • 2a cremation chamber in a Nazi concentration camp.

Origin:

Old English ofen, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch oven, German Ofen, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek ipnos