# pizza oven

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. Synonym of conveyor oven. (From being frequently found in modern pizzerias.)
2. A wood-fired brick oven with a stone floor in the baking chamber. (From being an oven found in traditional pizzerias, and an accessory built in backyards for pizza)
3. A specialized infrared oven; a squat thin oven which fits a single pizza, that uses high intensity infrared lamps to rapidly blast and bake a pizza.

## Etymology
From pizza + oven.
From being an oven specialized for making pizza.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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