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oakwood en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Old English āc wudu; equivalent to oak + wood.

Meanings

1. (countable) A wood populated with oak trees.
   • 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[…] 1824, George Chalmers, Caledonia, volume 3, page 280:
   • She stood there for a moment, entirely alone in the dreaming oakwoods […]
2. (uncountable) The wood of the oak tree.
   • The Marlfox ignored the jibe, listening to the steady ring of axeblades against oakwood. 1998, Brian Jacques, “Act Three: The Queen’s Island”, in Marlfox (Redwall), London: Hutchinson Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 296:
   • The acrid smell of sweat and burning oakwood vied with the sweet fragrance of roasted beef to fill her nostrils and envelop her senses, while the heat of the vast chamber threatened to overwhelm her more completely than the rigours of the journey. 1986, Linda Acaster, Hostage of the Heart, Leicester, Leics.: Ulverscroft, published 1996, →ISBN, page 188:
   • 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. 1887, Morley Roberts, “Oregon Underfoot”, in The Western Avernus or Toil and Travel in Further North America, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], page 252:
   • When you went in the heavy front doors of Grandpa Cook’s house, the first impression was of burning oakwood. […] The room I always slept in there, and that was especially for grandchildren, was a gloom. It had a no-lived-in feeling, no magic, no smell of its own, except that of the all-penetrating burning oakwood. 1933, Mabel Dodge Luhan, “Grandma Cook in Her House”, in Intimate Memories: Background, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, pages 124 and 135:

Forms

Deriveds

Oakwood

Translations (88)

el δρυμός (wood populated with oaks) · cmn 櫟樹林 /栎树林 (wood populated with oaks) · hsb dubina (wood populated with oaks) · nci ahāhuatlah (wood populated with oaks) · cmn 橡樹林 /橡树林 (wood populated with oaks) · oc cassanha (wood populated with oaks) · de Eichenwald (wood populated with oaks) · nci āhuacuauhtlah (wood populated with oaks) · uz dubzor oʻrmon (wood populated with oaks) · hu tölgyes (wood populated with oaks) · lv ozolu audze (wood populated with oaks) · ast carbayeda (wood populated with oaks) · zlw-ocs dúbrava (wood populated with oaks) · pt carvalhal (wood populated with oaks) · pl dębniak (wood populated with oaks) · lv ozolu birzs (wood populated with oaks) · it querceto (wood populated with oaks) · it rovereto (wood populated with oaks) · hu tölgyerdő (wood populated with oaks) · hsb dubrawa (wood populated with oaks) · an caxigar (wood populated with oaks) · es robleda (wood populated with oaks) · ga doire (wood populated with oaks) · gv darragh (wood populated with oaks) · be дубня́к (wood populated with oaks) · eu harizti (wood populated with oaks) · nl eikenbosje (wood populated with oaks) · ro stejăriște (wood populated with oaks) · es roblería (wood populated with oaks) · sq imshte (wood populated with oaks) · gl carballal (wood populated with oaks) · sk dúbrava (wood populated with oaks) · la quercētum (wood populated with oaks) · be дубро́ва (wood populated with oaks) · uk дубня́к (wood populated with oaks) · pl dąbrowa (wood populated with oaks) · pt carvalheira (wood populated with oaks) · it querceta (wood populated with oaks) · sh dùbrava (wood populated with oaks) · ro stejeriște (wood populated with oaks) · cs dubina (wood populated with oaks) · es robledal (wood populated with oaks) · gl carballeira (wood populated with oaks) · fr rouvraie (wood populated with oaks) · ast carbayéu (wood populated with oaks) · ru дубро́ва (wood populated with oaks) · nl eikenbos (wood populated with oaks) · ka მუხნარი (wood populated with oaks) · vi rừng sồi (wood populated with oaks) · la querquētum (wood populated with oaks) · ca roureda (wood populated with oaks) · fi tammimetsä (wood populated with oaks) · an caxicar (wood populated with oaks) · an caixigar (wood populated with oaks) · ro stejăriș (wood populated with oaks) · frp chanai (wood populated with oaks) · de Eichenhain (wood populated with oaks) · io querkaro (wood populated with oaks) · sl dobrava (wood populated with oaks) · es robledo (wood populated with oaks) · an caixigosa (wood populated with oaks) · bg дъбрава (wood populated with oaks) · ru дубра́ва (wood populated with oaks) · scn cirzitu (wood populated with oaks) · de Eichwald (wood populated with oaks) · co quarcetu (wood populated with oaks) · io querkeyo (wood populated with oaks) · hy կաղնուտ (wood populated with oaks) · sh ду̀брава (wood populated with oaks) · br tannoed (wood populated with oaks) · ast carbayal (wood populated with oaks) · io querko-bosko (wood populated with oaks) · lt ąžuolynas (wood populated with oaks) · da egeskov (wood populated with oaks) · sq imshtë (wood populated with oaks) · sv ekskog (wood populated with oaks) · dsb dubrawa (wood populated with oaks) · pl dębina (wood populated with oaks) · hsb dubowina (wood populated with oaks) · sq ipshtë (wood populated with oaks) · cu дѫбрава (wood populated with oaks) · uk дібро́ва (wood populated with oaks) · cs doubrava (wood populated with oaks) · cs doubravina (wood populated with oaks) · ru дубня́к (wood populated with oaks) · fr chênaie (wood populated with oaks) · cy derwlwyn (wood populated with oaks) · nci āhuatlah (wood populated with oaks)