the part of a cooker/stove shaped like a box with a door on the front, in which food is cooked or heated:
Take the cake out of the oven. * a gas / an electric oven * a cool / hot / moderate oven * (spoken) Open a window, it's like an oven in here!
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IDIOMS see BUN
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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