oven | meaning of oven in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishovenov‧en /ˈʌvən/ ●●● S3 noun [countable]    1 DHCa piece of equipment that food is cooked inside, shaped like a metal box with a door on the front → cooker, stove  Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C.  Press the mixture onto the bread and bake in a hot oven for ten minutes.2 → like an ovenExamples from the Corpusoven• Saturday night I always do the gas oven out.• Top with the mashed potato and bake in a preheated oven at 190C, 375F or Gas Mark 5 for 30 minutes.• Bake in a preheated oven at 190C, 375F or Gas Mark 5 for 10 minutes or until light golden.• There was a pot on the stove, a casserole in the oven, and a note on the counter.• Put a cookie sheet on the oven rack during preheating.• The blazing summer sun can turn their black-and-white Ford Broncos into wheeled ovens.Origin oven Old English ofen