Definitions for Oaks

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Oaks oak

Spelling: [ohk]

IPA: /oʊk/

Oaks is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in Oaks (akos).

Definitions for Oaks

noun

1. any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Quercus, of the beech family, bearing the acorn as fruit.
2. the hard, durable wood of such a tree, used in making furniture and in construction.
3. the leaves of this tree, especially as worn in a chaplet.
4. anything made of the wood of this tree, as an item of furniture, a door, etc.

Idioms

1. 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.

Origin of Oaks

before 900; Middle English ook, Old English āc; cognate with Dutch eik, German Eiche

Examples for Oaks

It would be the first time an oaks and Derby winner would face off in the Preakness.

The oaks, because of their large tap-roots, can be transplanted only when small.

They drop from the oaks like fruit that is ready to be eaten!

A listener from Thousand oaks put me in touch with the Dachshund rescue center where I adopted Lisa-Marie.

Now we paralleled the river, beyond whose far edge grew many slender-trunked nara trees; apparently they were Japanese oaks.

This is specially true of cedars and oaks, as well as of elms and maples.

It is an evil season when such acorns grow upon English oaks.'

At one community fair, in Thousand oaks, Ruby met a man, a wrestler, who would become her next husband.

In Hancock County, Ill., oaks have been succeeded by hickories.

Come with me to the hammock under the oaks in the yard and I will tell it.