| \SAM-uh-vahr, sam-uh-VAHR\ | noun
1. a metal urn, used especially by Russians for heating water for making tea. | | Quotes | She never used the samovar except on special occasions, for example during the visits of her sisters-in-law. Then she made tea and set it on the table to flatter them.
-- Tamar Yellin, The Genizah at the House of Shepher, 2005 | | Origin | | Samovar entered English in the 1800s from the Russian samovár, which means "self-boiler." | |
