oxford
part of speech
proper noun (Oxford); noun (an oxford, oxfords — a shoe)
meaning for a pupil
1) Oxford is a city in England, famous for its very old university (a name). tree →
2) The University of Oxford is one of the oldest universities in the world. tree →
3) An oxford is a lace-up leather shoe. tree →
4) An Oxford comma is a comma before «and» in a list (red, white, and blue). tree →
sense in the lessons
In school, the Oxford Dictionaries and Oxford Reading Tree books are common. In grammar, the «Oxford comma» is a style choice. «Oxford and Cambridge» are the two famous old English universities.
examples
- Oxford is a city full of old stone colleges. tree →
- My cousin studies at Oxford University. tree →
- We read Oxford Reading Tree books in Year 1. tree →
- He wore black oxfords to the wedding. tree →
- Should I use an Oxford comma in this list? tree →
- The Oxford dictionary has thousands of words. tree →
- Mr. Tyrwhitt published, A.D. 1776, a Dissertation on Babrias, and a collection of his fables in choliambic metre found in a MS. in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. tree →
note
Usually with capital O (a place name). Literally «a ford for oxen» — a place where cattle crossed the river.
In the corpora
- Yasmin says the oldest university is in Fez, Morocco; Tom says Oxford.
- Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Dodgson, a mathematics teacher at Christ Church college in Oxford.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «oxford» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.