oscar

«oscar» in Mova's school dictionary: a gold statue given each year as a top prize for films… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun, name (an Oscar, Oscars; Oscar — a boy's name)

meaning for a pupil

1) An Oscar is a gold statue given each year as a top prize for films, also called an Academy Award. tree →

2) Oscar is a boy's name. tree →

3) In the spelling alphabet used on radios, "Oscar" stands for the letter O. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, the Oscars are a famous film award show in Hollywood, USA. In stories and class, Oscar is a common name. Pilots, police and sailors say "Oscar" for O so letters are not misheard (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie…).

examples

• The film won three Oscars. tree →
• She was nominated for an Oscar for best actress. tree →
• My best friend is called Oscar. tree →
• We watched the Oscars on TV. tree →
• In the radio alphabet, O is "Oscar". tree →
• Oscar the cat sleeps on my bed. tree →

note

Name and prize are written with a capital O. Plural for the prizes: Oscars. Not a common word otherwise.

In the corpora

• Vivid example: in a kitchen in Cork, Mum watches the breakfast show while Oscar eats his cereal.
• Oscar swears a kid at his cousin's school skipped a whole year and nobody noticed.
• Oscar argued for ten minutes that a whale is a fish.

Trees and pragmatics

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