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oak

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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

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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
1. the wood of any of these trees, used esp as building timber and for making furniture
2. ( as modifier )
  an oak table
any of various trees that resemble the oak, such as the poison oak, silky oak, and Jerusalem oak
1. anything made of oak, esp a heavy outer door to a set of rooms in an Oxford or Cambridge college
2. 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

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Origin of oak¹

First recorded before 900; Middle English ok(e), oc, Old English �峦; cognate with Dutch eik, German Eiche, Old Icelandic eik; further origin uncertain

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Origin of oak¹

Old English �峦; related to Old Norse eik, Old High German eih, Latin aesculus

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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.

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Example Sentences

It is one of the region's largest oaks and a vital ecosystem for rare lichens like the black-eyed Susan.

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The oak trees saved the blue house on East Calaveras Street.

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I offered my loneliness and heartbreak to the live oaks and sycamores, refuse they could make into something useful the same way they convert carbon dioxide into oxygen.

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Here on the golf course, a group gathers under an oak tree to escape the sun.

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And plein-air painters filled their canvases with the dramatic silhouettes of the California live oak.

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