Definitions for oral

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oral o·ral

Spelling: [awr-uh l, ohr-]

IPA: /ˈɔr əl, ˈoʊr-/

Oral is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in oral (alor).

Definitions for oral

noun

1. an oral examination in a school, college, or university, given especially to a candidate for an advanced degree.

adjective

1. uttered by the mouth; spoken:
2. of, using, or transmitted by speech:
3. of, relating to, or involving the mouth:
4. done, taken, or administered through the mouth:
5. Phonetics. articulated with none of the voice issuing through the nose, as the normal English vowels and the consonants b and v.
6. Psychoanalysis. of or relating to the earliest phase of infantile psychosexual development, lasting from birth to one year of age or longer, during which pleasure is obtained from eating, sucking, and biting. of or relating to the sublimation of feelings experienced during the oral stage of childhood: of or relating to gratification by stimulation of the lips or membranes of the mouth, as in sucking, eating, or talking.
7. Zoology. pertaining to that surface of polyps and marine animals that contains the mouth and tentacles.

Origin of oral

1615-25; Latin ōr- (stem of ōs) mouth (cognate with Sanskrit āsya) + -al¹

Examples for oral

Several of us had formed a class for oral instruction in French.

Also, when Nelson died and Hugh Morrow did his own oral history project and talked to about 75 Rockefeller associates.

oral fossa: in Mallophaga, a furrow lying in front of the mandibles.

“He was attempting to force me into oral sex,” Ruehli told Philadelphia Magazine.

Will men say, 'The later the ballad, the more it is altered in oral tradition'?

That is the type of oral lesson which is most common at the present day.

He had made them, written and oral, and had only been laughed at for a half-crazy explorer.

These new developments are all the more positive when you take into account the dark history of the MPAA and oral sex.

After his mother arrived, the questioning ended, but his oral admissions were admitted into testimony.

My doctor put me on oral contraceptives to induce a period, figuring it would help build bone.