Oxford
['ɒksfəd] or ['ɑksfɚd]
Definition
(noun.) a low shoe laced over the instep.
(noun.) a city in southern England to the northwest of London; site of Oxford University.
(noun.) a university town in northern Mississippi; home of William Faulkner.
Editor: Yvonne--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England.
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Examples
- But--Mr. Bell--have you come from Oxford or from Milton? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I should like to be the representative of Oxford, with its beauty and its learning, and its proud old history. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He is leaving the Church on account of his opinions--his doubts would do him no good at Oxford. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Will Mr. Frank Churchill pass through Bath as well as Oxford? Jane Austen. Emma.
- Mr. Boythorn leaving us within a week, we took up our abode at a cheerful lodging near Oxford Street over an upholsterer's shop. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I must write to them at Oxford, to see that the preparations are made: they can be getting on with these till I arrive. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- So they remember my speaking at Oxford, do they? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- How do you like Oxford? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- At Oxford I have been a good deal used to have a man lean on me for the length of a street, and you are only a fly in the comparison. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I went out about mid-day to transact some business in Oxford Street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The Philosophical Transactions furnish us with abundance of histories of earthquakes, particularly one at Oxford in 1665, by Dr. Wallis and Mr. Boyle. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Why not say he was obliged to return to Oxford, and was _en désespoir! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The son, at the age of eighteen, was drowned at Oxford. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Clerval did not like it so well as Oxford; for the antiquity of the latter city was more pleasing to him. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- In my time at Oxford, the men passed round the bottle a little quicker than you young fellows seem to do. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And on the question of pumps versus patent-leather Oxfords his authority had never been disputed. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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