oak
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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”).
Cognates
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(key): /əʊk/
- (General American) enPR: ōk, IPA(key): /oʊk/
Audio (General American): (file) - (obsolete) enPR: wōk, IPA(key): /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 colour, 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
Hypernyms
- (oak tree): tree
Meronyms
- (oak tree): acorn
Derived terms
- Acton
- acute oak decline
- Aleppo oak
- Austrian oak
- Bartram oak
- black oak
- blue oak
- bog oak
- Burnt Oak
- bur oak
- bur oak blight
- burr oak
- Burr Oak
- chinkapin oak
- coast live oak
- desert oak
- Eakring
- Engelmann oak
- evergreen oak
- forest oak
- Four Oaks
- gall oak
- Gospel Oak
- heart of oak
- holly oak
- Holly Oak
- Honor Oak
- Italian oak
- Kellogg oak
- Knockholt
- laurel oak
- mighty oaks from little acorns grow
- Mirbeck's oak
- nightcap oak
- Noakes
- northern red oak
- Nuttall oak
- Nuttall's oak
- oak-apple
- Oak Bay
- oak-blue
- Oak Cliff
- Oak Creek
- oak decline
- oak-gall
- Oak Grove
- oakleaf
- oak leaf
- oak leather
- oak-leaved
- Oakleigh
- Oakley
- oakmoss
- oak paper
- Oak Park
- Oak Ridge
- Oakridge
- oak rough bulletgall wasp
- oak-tag
- oak tag
- oak titmouse
- oak tree
- oak wilt
- Oakwood
- oak wreath
- oil-on-oak
- Old Oak Common
- pedunculated oak
- pedunculate oak
- Portuguese oak
- post oak
- post oak bluff
- prickly oak
- Red Oak
- red oak
- red oak tree
- red silky oak
- rose she-oak
- Round Oak
- Royal Oak
- Selly Oak
- sessile oak
- Sevenoaks
- shingle oak
- shinnery oak
- Shire Oak
- Shumard oak
- silk-oak
- silk oak
- sport one's oak
- sport the oak
- sudden oak death
- swamp chestnut oak
- swamp oak
- swamp oak tree
- swamp Spanish oak
- swamp white oak
- Tasmanian oak
- Three Oaks
- Toumey oak
- turbinella oak
- western poison oak
- white oak tree
Translations
tree or shrub of the genus Quercus
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wood
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- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Adjective
oak (not comparable)
- Having a rich brown colour, 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.
Derived terms
terms derived from oak (tree species)
- acute oak decline
- bear oak (Quercus ilicifolia)
- blackjack oak (Quercus marilandica)
- chestnut oak (Quercus montana)
- Chapman oak (Quercus chapmanii)
- chinquapin oak (Quercus muehlenbergii)
- cork oak (Quercus suber)
- durmast oak (Quercus petraea)
- Emory oak (Quercus emoryi)
- fumed oak
- Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii)
- holly oak (Quercus ilex)
- holm oak (Quercus ilex)
- Jerusalem oak
- kermes oak (Quercus coccifera)
- leather oak (Quercus durata)
- live oak
- myrtle oak (Quercus myrtifolia)
- oak apple
- oak fern
- Oak Forest
- oak gall
- oak leaf cluster
- Oak Park
- oak pruner
- oak wilt (Ceratocystis fagacearum)
- oaken
- Oakland
- Oakley
- oakmoss (Evernia prunastri)
- oak processionary moth (Thaumetopoea processionea)
- Oakville
- pin oak (Quercus palustris)
- poison oak (Toxicodendron spp.)
- red oak (Quercus rubra)
- Royal Oak
- Sandhill oak (Quercus inopina)
- Santa Cruz Island oak (Quercus parvula)
- scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea)
- sessile oak (Quercus petraea)
- silky oak
- scrub oak
- tan oak (Notholithocarpus)
- Tucker oak (Quercus john-tuckeri)
- turkey oak (Quercus laevis)
- Turkey oak (Quercus cerris)
- valley oak (Quercus lobata)
- water oak (Quercus nigra)
- white oak (Quercus alba)
- willow oak (Quercus phellos)
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Pronunciation
Verb
oak
- (intransitive) to hide
- (stative) to be hidden
Derived terms
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