range hood

English

A range hood in a small apartment

Alternative forms

• rangehood

Noun

range hood (plural range hoods)

1. (US, Australia, New Zealand) An electrical kitchen device fitted over a cooker and connected to a flue designed to suck off any vapours from cooking.

Synonyms

• cooker hood
• cooking canopy
• electric chimney
• exhaust hood
• extraction hood
• extractor fan
• extractor hood
• fume extractor
• kitchen hood
• rangehood
• stove hood
• ventilation hood

Translations

kitchen device — see extractor hood

Further reading

• “range hood”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “range hood”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.