oak
the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,908 of 86,757 words measured. It occurs 45,347 times across 426,181 published chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring
- a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves also: oak tree great oaks grow from little acorns
oak in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Such is the Oak of Allonville, in its state of nature.
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 8 · William Wordsworth · Chapter 1
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The branches of the oak nearly crushed the children as it fell.
Laboulaye's Fairy Book · Édouard Laboulaye · Chapter 1
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But first we stopped under the old acorn-tree, and sung 'a song to the oak, the brave old oak.'
No and Other Stories Compiled by Uncle Humphrey · Various · Chapter 1
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A round oak table on six curiously turned legs stood in the middle, and on it some food was laid.
For the Cause · Stanley John Weyman · Chapter 1
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By care and culture it covered the cabin where she lived, and reached out to an oak a hundred feet beyond.
The Silver Arrow · Elbert Hubbard · Chapter 1