# oak
## English
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle English ook, oke, aik, ake, from Old English āc (also as Old English ǣċ), from Proto-West Germanic *aik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”).
From Proto-Germanic: Scots aik, West Frisian iik, Dutch eik, German Eiche, German Low German Eek, Danish eg, Norwegian Bokmål eik, Norwegian Nynorsk eik, Swedish ek, Yiddish אייכנבוים (eykhnboym).
From Proto-Indo-European: Latin aesculus (“Durmast oak”), Lithuanian ąžuolas (“oak”), Albanian enjë (“juniper, yew”), Ancient Greek αἰγίλωψ (aigílōps, “Turkey oak”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əʊk/
* (General American) enPR: ōk, IPA: /oʊk/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* (obsolete) enPR: wōk, IPA: /woʊk/
* Rhymes: -əʊk

### Noun

oak (countable and uncountable, plural oaks)
* (countable) A deciduous tree with distinctive deeply lobed leaves, acorns, and notably strong wood, typically of England and northeastern North America, included in genus Quercus.
** 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
** 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:Instead there were the white of aspens, streaks of branch and slender trunk glistening from the green of leaves, and the darker green of oaks, and through the middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and willows.
* (uncountable) The wood of the oak.
* A rich brown color, like that of oak wood.
    oak:
* Any tree of the genus Quercus, in family Fagaceae.
* Any tree of other genera and species of trees resembling typical oaks of genus Quercus in some ways.
** The she-oaks in Allocasuarina and Casuarina, of family Casuarinaceae
** Lagunaria, white oak, in family Malvaceae
** Various species called silky oak, in family Proteaceae
** Toxicodendron, poison oak, in family Anacardiaceae
** Various tanbark oak or stone oak species in family Fagaceae, genera Lithocarpus and Notholithocarpus.
* The outer (lockable) door of a set of rooms in a college or similar institution. (Often in the phrase sport one's oak.)
    Synonym: sporting door
** 1833, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, chapter 2, in Shelley at Oxford, London: Methuen:[E]very set of rooms has two doors, and I soon learned that the outer door, which is thick and solid, is called the oak, and to shut it is termed, to sport.
** 1930, Frank Richards, The Magnet: Prout's Lovely Black Eye:It was hardly the thing for a master to sport his oak where another member of the staff was concerned.
** The New Sporting Magazine (volume 15, page 23)
    The vesper bell had rung its parting note; the domini were mostly caged in comfortable quarters, discussing the merits of old port; and the merry student had closed his oak, to consecrate the night to friendship, sack, and claret.
* (wine) The flavor of oak.

#### Alternative forms

* (oak tree): woak, yack (England, dialectal, possibly obsolete)

#### Hypernyms

* (oak tree): tree

#### Meronyms

* (oak tree): acorn

#### Derived terms

* Aleppo oak
* Austrian oak
* Bartram oak
* bear oak (Quercus ilicifolia)
* blackjack oak (Quercus marilandica)
* black oak
* blue oak
* bog oak
* bur oak, burr oak
* canyon oak
* chestnut oak (Quercus montana)
* Chapman oak (Quercus chapmanii)
* chinkapin oak, chinquapin oak (Quercus muehlenbergii)
* coast live oak
* cork oak (Quercus suber)
* desert oak
* durmast oak (Quercus petraea)
* Emory oak (Quercus emoryi)
* Engelmann oak
* evergreen oak
* forest oak
* fumed oak
* gall oak
* Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii)
* Garry oak
* golden-cup oak
* Grave's oak
* hickory oak
* holly oak (Quercus ilex)
* holm oak (Quercus ilex)
* Italian oak
* Jerusalem oak
* Kellogg oak
* kermes oak (Quercus coccifera)
* laurel oak
* leather oak (Quercus durata)
* live oak
* maul oak
* Mirbeck's oak
* myrtle oak (Quercus myrtifolia)
* nightcap oak
* northern red oak
* Nuttall oak, Nuttall's oak
* Oregon white oak
* pedunculated oak, pedunculate oak
* pin oak (Quercus palustris)
* poison oak (Toxicodendron spp.)
* Portuguese oak
* post oak
* prickly oak
* red oak (Quercus rubra)
* red silky oak
* rose she-oak
* Sandhill oak (Quercus inopina)
* Santa Cruz Island oak (Quercus parvula)
* scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea)
* Schneck oak
* scrub oak
* sessile oak (Quercus petraea)
* shingle oak
* shinnery oak
* Shumard oak
* silk-oak, silk oak
* silky oak
* swamp chestnut oak
* swamp oak
* swamp Spanish oak
* swamp white oak
* Tasmanian oak
* tan oak (Notholithocarpus)
* Toumey oak
* Tucker oak (Quercus john-tuckeri)
* turbinella oak
* turkey oak (Quercus laevis)
* Turkey oak (Quercus cerris)
* valley oak (Quercus lobata)
* water oak (Quercus nigra)
* western poison oak
* white oak (Quercus alba)
* willow oak (Quercus phellos)
* acute oak decline
* Burnt Oak
* bur oak blight
* Burr Oak
* Four Oaks
* Gospel Oak
* heart of oak
* Holly Oak
* Honor Oak
* mighty oaks from little acorns grow
* Noakes
* oak-apple, oak apple
* Oak Bay
* oak-blue
* Oak Cliff
* Oak Creek
* oak decline
* oaken
* oak fern
* Oak Forest
* oak-gall, oak gall
* Oak Grove
* Oakland
* oak leaf cluster
* oakleaf, oak leaf
* oak leather
* oak-leaved
* Oakleigh
* Oakley
* oakmoss (Evernia prunastri)
* oak paper
* Oak Park
* oak processionary moth (Thaumetopoea processionea)
* oak pruner
* Oakridge
* Oak Ridge
* oak rough bulletgall wasp
* oak-tag, oak tag
* oak titmouse
* Oakville
* oak wilt (Ceratocystis fagacearum)
* Oakwood
* oak wreath
* oil-on-oak
* Old Oak Common
* post oak bluff
* Red Oak
* Round Oak
* Royal Oak
* Selly Oak
* Sevenoaks
* Shire Oak
* sport one's oak, sport the oak
* sudden oak death
* Three Oaks

#### Translations

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### Adjective

oak (not comparable)
* Having a rich brown color, like that of oak wood.
* Made of oak wood or timber.
    an oak table, oak beam, etc.

#### Synonyms

* (made of oak): oaken

#### Translations
### Verb

oak (third-person singular simple present oaks, present participle oaking, simple past and past participle oaked)
* (wine, transitive) To expose to oak in order for the oak to impart its flavors.

### See also

* acorn
* cork
* ellagic acid
* encina
* nutgall
* quercetin
* quercitron
* roble
* shillelagh
* tanbark
* valonia
* wainscot
* Appendix:Colors

### Further reading

* oak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “oak”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* A-OK, AOK, Kao, Oka, koa, oka

## Mokilese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔk/

### Verb

oak
* (intransitive) to hide
* (stative) to be hidden

#### Derived terms

* oaki