furnace

1. 1.

   an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.

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Other forms of furnace

plural

furnaces·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about furnace

What does furnace mean?

furnace means "an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.".

How many syllables are in furnace?

furnace has 2 syllables: fur-nace. The stress falls on "fur". In IPA it is /ˈfɝnəs/.

Is furnace a common word?

furnace is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.