What does "oakwood" mean?
A wood populated with oak trees.
Oakwood
name, noun
name, noun ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·College level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A wood populated with oak trees.
- Grammar: oakwood is listed as name, noun.
- Usage evidence: Phragmites plants growing on Staten Island draft in a breeze in the Oakwood Beach neighborhood of Staten Island.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A wood populated with oak trees. countable
"He says moreover the Earl of Galloway had an oakwood of three miles extent along the Cree, whence a great part of Wigtonshire is supplied with timber[…]"
- 2 The wood of the oak tree. uncountable
"Then I ran into the wilderness again of Wolf Creek, and spent 25 cents of the last little money I had in buying a can of salmon, which I devoured sitting on a log in the forest, and came at night to Grave Creek, and split a pile of oakwood, getting a good supper thereby and a long talk with the hired girl, who was pretty and pleasant, not deeming me a common tramp."
Proper Noun
- 1 A number of places in England:; A neighbourhood of Birchwood, Warrington borough, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ6591).
- 2 A number of places in England:; A suburb and housing estate in Derby, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK3838).
- 3 A number of places in England:; A suburb in the borough of Enfield, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ2995).
- 4 A number of places in England:; A small village in Sandhoe parish and Acomb parish (West Oakwood), Northumberland (OS grid ref NY9565).
- 5 A number of places in England:; A suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE3336).
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- 6 A hamlet south-east of Coupar Angus, Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO2537).
- 7 A locality in the Inverell council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
- 8 A rural locality in Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia.
- 9 A community in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada.
- 10 A number of places in the United States:; A neighbourhood of Venice, Los Angeles, California.
- 11 A number of places in the United States:; A city in Hall County, Georgia.
- 12 A number of places in the United States:; A village and township in Vermilion County, Illinois.
- 13 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in LaPorte County, Indiana.
- 14 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Steuben County, Indiana.
- 15 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Cecil County, Maryland.
- 16 A number of places in the United States:; A village in Clay County, Missouri.
- 17 A number of places in the United States:; A neighbourhood of Hannibal, Marion County, Missouri.
- 18 A number of places in the United States:; A neighbourhood on Staten Island, New York City, New York.
- 19 A number of places in the United States:; A neighbourhood of Raleigh, North Carolina; in full, Historic Oakwood.
- 20 A number of places in the United States:; A village in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
- 21 A number of places in the United States:; A city in Montgomery County, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton.
- 22 A number of places in the United States:; A village in Paulding County, Ohio.
- 23 A number of places in the United States:; A minor town in Dewey County, Oklahoma.
- 24 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania.
- 25 A number of places in the United States:; A neighbourhood in west Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 26 A number of places in the United States:; A town in Leon County and Freestone County, Texas.
- 27 A number of places in the United States:; A former unincorporated community in Oak Creek, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
- 28 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Algoma, Winnebago County, Wisconsin.
Example
"Phragmites plants growing on Staten Island draft in a breeze in the Oakwood Beach neighborhood of Staten Island."
Common questions
How do you use "oakwood" in a sentence?
Phragmites plants growing on Staten Island draft in a breeze in the Oakwood Beach neighborhood of Staten Island.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Old English āc wudu; equivalent to oak + wood.
Etymology 2
By proprialization from oakwood, as likewise with Oakland from oak + -land.