Hearth vs. Oven — What's the Difference?

A hearth is a brick- or stone-lined fireplace, with or without an oven, used for heating and originally also used for cooking food. For centuries, the hearth was such an integral part of a home, usually its central and most important feature, that the concept has been generalized to refer to a homeplace or household, as in the terms "hearth and home" and "keep the home fires burning".

An oven is a tool which is used to expose materials to a hot environment. Ovens contain a hollow chamber and provide a means of heating the chamber in a controlled way.

The floor of a fireplace, usually extending into a room and paved with brick, flagstone, or cement.

A chamber or enclosed compartment for heating, baking, or roasting food, as in a stove, or for firing, baking, hardening, or drying objects, as in a kiln.

A fireplace

A chamber used for baking or heating.

Family life; the home.

(colloquial) A very hot place.

The lowest part of a blast furnace or cupola, from which the molten metal flows.

To cook in an oven

The bottom of a reverberatory furnace, where ore is exposed to the flame.

A place arched over with brick or stonework, and used for baking, heating, or drying; hence, any structure, whether fixed or portable, which may be heated for baking, drying, etc.; esp., now, a chamber in a stove, used for baking or roasting.

The fireplace or brazier of a blacksmith's forge.

Kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting

The place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos, fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.

A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.

A fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.

The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.

A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.

(figurative) Home or family life.

(Germanic paganism) A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.

The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove.

The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.

The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles; as, an open-hearth smelting furnace.

An open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built;

Home symbolized as a part of the fireplace;

An area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room);