oak
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ake, hok, oek, ok, oke, from Old English aac, āc, ǣċ, from Proto-West Germanic *aik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks (“oak”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”).
Cognates
From Proto-Germanic: Scots aik, ake, yik (“oak”), North Frisian iake, iik (“oak”), Saterland Frisian Eeke (“oak”), West Frisian iik (“oak”), Cimbrian aicha, oach (“oak”), Dutch eik (“oak”), German Eiche (“oak”), Luxembourgish Eech (“oak”), Vilamovian aach, aeh́, ǡh́ (“oak”), Danish eg (“oak”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk eik (“oak”), Norwegian Bokmål eik, ek (“oak”), Swedish ek (“oak”).
From Proto-Indo-European: Latin aesculus (“Italian oak”), Ancient Greek αἰγίλωψ (aigílōps, “Turkey oak”), Albanian enjë (“English yew; stinking juniper”), Latvian ozols (“oak”), Lithuanian ąžuolas (“oak”).
Inflected forms:
form: oaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: woak
pos: noun
tags: alternative
England
dialectal
obsolete
possibly
form: yack
pos: noun
tags: alternative
England
dialectal
obsolete
possibly
form: oke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: oke
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: oaks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: oaking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: oaked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: oaked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: oke
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A deciduous tree with distinctive deeply lobed leaves, acorns, and notably strong wood, typically of England and northeastern North America, included in genus Quercus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: The wood of the oak.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A rich brown color, like that of oak wood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any tree of the genus Quercus, in family Fagaceae.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any tree of other genera and species of trees resembling typical oaks of genus Quercus in some ways.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any tree of other genera and species of trees resembling typical oaks of genus Quercus in some ways.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any tree of other genera and species of trees resembling typical oaks of genus Quercus in some ways.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any tree of other genera and species of trees resembling typical oaks of genus Quercus in some ways.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any tree of other genera and species of trees resembling typical oaks of genus Quercus in some ways.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The outer (lockable) door of a set of rooms in a college or similar institution. (Often in the phrase sport one's oak.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [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.
It was hardly the thing for a master to sport his oak where another member of the staff was concerned.
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.
gloss: The flavor of oak.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Having a rich brown color, like that of oak wood.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Made of oak wood or timber.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an oak table, oak beam, etc.
gloss: To expose to oak in order for the oak to impart its flavors.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: Aleppo oak
Austrian oak
Bartram oak
bear oak
blackjack oak
black oak
bleeding oak crust
blue oak
bog oak
bur oak
burr oak
canyon oak
chestnut oak
Chapman oak
chinkapin oak
chinquapin oak
coast live oak
cork oak
desert oak
downy oak
durmast oak
Emory oak
Engelmann oak
evergreen oak
forest oak
fumed oak
gall oak
Gambel oak
Garry oak
golden-cup oak
Grave's oak
green oak
hickory oak
holly oak
holm oak
Italian oak
Jerusalem oak
oak of Jerusalem
Kellogg oak
kermes oak
laurel oak
leather oak
live oak
maul oak
Mirbeck's oak
myrtle oak
nightcap oak
northern red oak
Nuttall oak
Nuttall's oak
Oregon white oak
pedunculated oak
pedunculate oak
pin oak
poison oak
Portuguese oak
post oak
prickly oak
pubescent oak
red oak
red silky oak
rose she-oak
Sandhill oak
Santa Cruz Island oak
scarlet oak
Schneck oak
scrub oak
sessile oak
Seven Oaks
shingle oak
shinnery oak
Shumard oak
silk-oak
silk oak
silky oak
spotted oak
swamp chestnut oak
swamp oak
swamp Spanish oak
swamp white oak
Tasmanian oak
tan oak
Toumey oak
Tucker oak
turbinella oak
turkey oak
Turkey oak
valley oak
water oak
weeping oak
western poison oak
white oak
willow oak
acute oak decline
Burnt Oak
bur oak blight
Burr Oak
Clearlake Oaks
Del Rey Oaks
Fair Oaks
Four Oaks
Glen Oak
Gospel Oak
heart of oak
Holly Oak
Honor Oak
Knockholt
Meiners Oaks
mighty oaks from little acorns grow
Noakes
North Fair Oaks
oak-apple
oak apple
oakbark
Oak Bay
oak-blue
Oakboy
Oak Cliff
Oak Creek
Oakdale
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
oakless
oaklet
Oakley
oaklike
oakling
oakmoss
oakness
oak paper
Oak Park
oak processionary moth
oak pruner
Oak Ridge
Oakridge
oak rough bulletgall wasp
oak-tag
oak tag
oak titmouse
Oakville
oakware
oak wilt
Oakwood
oakwood
oak wreath
oaky
oil-on-oak
Old Oak Common
post oak bluff
Red Oak
Round Oak
Royal Oak
Selly Oak
Sevenoaks
Sherman Oaks
Shire Oak
sport one's oak
sport the oak
sudden oak death
tanoak
Thousand Oaks
Three Oaks
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: سِنْدِيَان
roman: sindiyān
lang: Arabic
word: بَلُّوط
roman: ballūṭ
lang: Arabic
word: أرو
roman: ʔarru
lang: Armenian
word: կաղնի
roman: kaġni
lang: Bashkir
word: имән
roman: imən
lang: Basque
word: harizki
lang: Basque
word: haritz
lang: Bulgarian
word: дъб
roman: dǎb
lang: Burmese
word: ဝက်သစ်ချ
roman: waksachkya.
lang: Catalan
word: roure
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 橡木
roman: xiàngmù
lang: Czech
word: dub
lang: Danish
word: eg
lang: Danish
word: egetræ
lang: Dutch
word: eik
lang: Dutch
word: eikenhout
lang: Esperanto
word: kverka
lang: Estonian
word: tamm
lang: Estonian
word: tammepuit
lang: Faroese
word: eik
lang: Finnish
word: tammi
lang: French
word: chêne
lang: Galician
word: carballo
lang: Georgian
word: მუხა
roman: muxa
lang: German
word: Eiche
lang: German
word: Eichenholz
lang: Old High German
word: eih
lang: Hebrew
word: אלון \ אַלּוֹן
roman: alón
lang: Hebrew
word: אלון \ אֵלוֹן
roman: elón
lang: Hungarian
word: tölgy
lang: Icelandic
word: eik
lang: Italian
word: rovere
lang: Italian
word: legno di quercia
lang: Japanese
word: オーク
roman: ōku
lang: Kazakh
word: емен
roman: emen
lang: Kyrgyz
word: эмен
roman: emen
lang: Latgalian
word: ūzuls
lang: Latin
word: rōbur
lang: Latvian
word: ozols
lang: Lithuanian
word: ąžuolas
lang: Maltese
word: ballut
lang: Navajo
word: chéchʼil
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: eik
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: eik
lang: Old English
word: āc
lang: Polish
word: dąb
lang: Polish
word: dębina
lang: Portuguese
word: carvalho
lang: Romanian
word: stejar
lang: Russian
word: дуб
roman: dub
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: darach
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: храстовина
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: храст
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: hrastovina
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: hrast
lang: Slovak
word: dub
lang: Slovene
word: hrast
lang: Slovene
word: hrastovina
lang: Spanish
word: roble
lang: Swedish
word: ek
lang: Swedish
word: ekträ
lang: Swedish
word: ekvirke
lang: Swedish
word: eke
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: میشه
roman: meşe
lang: Vilamovian
word: aach
lang: Welsh
word: derw