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   oven

   /ˈʌvn/

   noun

   • 1. an enclosed compartment, usually part of a cooker, for cooking and heating food: "bake the dish in a preheated oven"
   • ▪ a small furnace or kiln.
   • ▪ used to describe a very hot place: "the sun was beating down on to my little tent and it was like an oven in there"
   • ▪ a cremation chamber or gas chamber in a Nazi concentration camp.

   Word Origin Old Englishofen, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch oven, German Ofen, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek ipnos.

   Scrabble Points: 7

   • O

     1

   • V

     4

   • E

     1

   • N

     1

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