oddity

«oddity» in Mova's school dictionary: A strange or unusual person, thing or event — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (an oddity, oddities)

meaning for a pupil

1) A strange or unusual person, thing or event. tree →

2) Being strange or unusual (uncountable). tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in stories, science and everyday talk: museums show oddities; nature has oddities like the platypus, a mammal that lays eggs. Phrases: "a bit of an oddity", "an oddity of nature".

examples

• The platypus is an oddity: a mammal that lays eggs. tree →
• The shop sold oddities like two-headed toy dragons. tree →
• It was an oddity that the clock ran backwards. tree →
• Among the plain houses, the purple one was an oddity. tree →
• In a class of football fans, the boy who loved opera was an oddity. tree →
• The oddity of the noise made us look around. tree →
• The museum's cabinet of oddities was my favourite room. tree →

note

Plural "oddities". From "odd" (strange, and also not even). Odd numbers (1, 3, 5) have nothing to do with oddities, though they share the word "odd".

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «oddity» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.