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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
samovar
noun
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▪ He forgot about the Opera House, the samovar, and home.
▪ We finished with an ice-cream sweet and mugs of hot tea from the samovar on the table.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Samovar

Samovar \Sa"mo*var\, n. [Russ. samovar'.] A metal urn used in Russia for making tea. It is filled with water, which is heated by charcoal placed in a pipe, with chimney attached, which passes through the urn.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
samovar

1830, from Russian samovar, literally "self-boiler," from sam "self" (see same) + varit "to boil" (from Old Church Slavonic variti "to cook," from PIE root *wer- "to burn"); but this is perhaps folk-etymology if the word is from Tatar sanabar "tea-urn."

Wiktionary
samovar

n. A metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea. Traditionally, the water is heated by hot coals or charcoal in a chimney-like tube which runs through the center of the urn. Today, it is more likely that the water is heated by an electric coil.

WordNet
samovar

n. a metal urn with a spigot at the base; used in Russia to boil water for tea

Wikipedia
Samovar

A samovar (, ; literally "self-boil", Persian: Samāvar, Turkish: semaver) is a heated metal container traditionally used to heat and boil water in and around Russia, as well as in countries in Central Europe, South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe, Kashmir and the Middle-East. Since the heated water is typically used to make tea, many samovars have a ring-shaped attachment around the chimney to hold and heat a teapot filled with tea concentrate.

Though traditionally heated with coal or charcoal, many newer samovars use electricity to heat water in a manner similar to an electric water boiler. Antique samovars are often prized for their beautiful workmanship.

Usage examples of "samovar".

When the samovar boiled, and she brought it into the room, she found the guests sitting in a close circle around the table, and Natasha installed in the corner under the lamp with a book in her hands.

On returning home she gathered together all the books, and pressing them to her bosom walked about the house for a long time, looking into the oven, under the oven, into the pipe of the samovar, and even into the water vat.

Sitting on the floor, the Little Russian spread his legs around the samovar, and regarded Pavel.

Then she rose, removed the pipe from the samovar, trying not to make a noise, washed herself, and began to pray, crossing herself piously, and noiselessly moving her lips.

Early in the morning she polished up the samovar, made a fire in it, and filled it with water, and noiselessly placed the dishes on the table.

CHAPTER XI The mother went to the room in the tavern, sat herself at the table in front of the samovar, took a piece of bread in her hand, looked at it, and slowly put it back on the plate.

On the table stood a cold samovar, unwashed dishes, sausages, and cheese on paper, along with plates, crumbs of bread, books, and coals from the samovar.

Nikolay brought a bottle of alcohol, put coals in the samovar, and walked away silently.

On one of the tables an enormous samovar was boiling, and there stood a tray with as many as two dozen glasses.

Stavrogin, passing through the entryway where a samovar had been prepared and was already beginning to boil.

On the table, in the middle of the room, the samovar was boiling and there stood a full but untouched and forgotten glass of tea.

Erkel was totally silent and merely arranged for tea to be served, which he brought with his own hands from his landladies, in glasses on a tray, without bringing in the samovar or letting the servingwoman enter.

But the samovar was brought in, and at the same moment the book-hawker, who had stepped out somewhere, came back.

The fish soup was served, the chicken was served, the samovar, finally, was served, and he went on talking .

When officials and merchants stop there, they always ask that the samovar be served and the beds be made by no one but Varvara.