: an enclosed structure in which heat is produced (as for heating a house or for reducing ore)
Examples of furnace in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebWhen spring and summer roll around, and the valley becomes a furnace, 12,000-foot Mt. Charleston is less than an hour’s drive away and the upper reaches can be 30 degrees cooler.—Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024 The walls were still radiating heat like a furnace, and in certain places the floor was nearly 400 degrees.—Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for furnace
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English furnas, from Anglo-French forneise, from Latin fornac-, fornax; akin to Latin formus warm — more at therm
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