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oak
[ ohk ]
noun
- any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Quercus, of the beech family, bearing the acorn as fruit.
- the hard, durable wood of an oak tree, used in making furniture and in construction.
- Archaic. the leaves of an oak tree, especially as worn in a chaplet.
adjective
- pertaining to or made of oak:
an antique oak desk;
heavy oak doors with double locks.
oak
/ əʊ /
noun
- any deciduous or evergreen tree or shrub of the fagaceous genus Quercus, having acorns as fruits and lobed leaves See also holm oak cork oak red oak Turkey oak durmast quercine
- the wood of any of these trees, used esp as building timber and for making furniture
- ( as modifier )
an oak table
- any of various trees that resemble the oak, such as the poison oak, silky oak, and Jerusalem oak
- anything made of oak, esp a heavy outer door to a set of rooms in an Oxford or Cambridge college
- to shut this door as a sign one does not want visitors
- the leaves of an oak tree, worn as a garland
- the dark brownish colour of oak wood
- any of various species of casuarina, such as desert oak, swamp oak, or she-oak
Other Word Forms
- Dz· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of oak1
Word History and Origins
Origin of oak1
Idioms and Phrases
- sport one's oak, British. (of a university student) to indicate that one is not at home to visitors by closing the outer door of one's lodgings.
Example Sentences
The coffins used for previous papal burials consisted of three nesting coffins made of cypress, lead and oak - but Pope Francis asked to be buried in a simple wooden casket.
Hundreds of people gathered on Sunday to protest the felling of an ancient oak tree in Whitewebbs Park in north London.
Previous pontiffs were buried in three nested coffins made of cypress, lead and oak.
In time, council officials may well get some answers on what went wrong for the Whitewebbs oak, and some locals are more hopeful.
The felling of a 500-year-old ancient oak in north London has led to an outpouring of anger, echoing the reaction when the Sycamore Gap tree is alleged to have been chopped down in September 2023.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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