horno
oven
Reviewed by: David WestfallCofounder
The oven you cook in, and by extension anything that gets that hot
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mnemonic
visual
horn
curved animal horn
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-o
noun suffix
Horno means oven and looks like the English word horn0, so picture a giant oven built in the shape of a curved horn.
horno
oven (kitchen)
The kitchen appliance you bake and roast food in.
Metí el pollo en el horno hace una horaI put the chicken in the oven an hour ago
El horno todavía no está calienteThe oven still isn't hot
furnace, kiln (industrial)
Used for the industrial versions of an oven, like the furnace that melts metal or the kiln that fires pottery. Spanish uses one word for any sealed chamber built to hold extreme heat.
El horno de la fábrica funde el metal a más de mil gradosThe factory furnace melts metal at over a thousand degrees
Dejamos las tazas de barro en el horno toda la nocheWe left the clay cups in the kiln all night