oaks
SayOHKSUS/oʊks/UK/əʊks/
- 1Plural of oak. Use it when you talk about more than one oak tree.
Two tall oaks shade the back of our yard.
The old oaks along the road turn brown and gold every fall.
Note
- 2A big horse race that only three-year-old female horses are allowed to run in.
Her horse came second in the Oaks last spring.
The young horse trained all winter to get ready for the Oaks.
Note
oaks is a form of oak
oak, noun: A tree that grows acorns and has leaves with deep, wavy edges and very strong wood. Full entry
- Forms
- oakoaks plural
- Spelling
- oak → oaks: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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Origins
Meaning 1
From oak with the ending -s added.
Meaning 2
Named after the Epsom Oaks horse race.