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OXFORD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A low shoe laced over the instep
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("oxford" is a kind of...):
shoe (footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oxford"):
saddle oxford; saddle shoe (an oxford with a saddle of contrasting color)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A university in England
Synonyms:
Oxford; Oxford University
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Instance hypernyms:
university (establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching)
Holonyms ("Oxford" is a part of...):
Oxford (a city in southern England to the northwest of London; site of Oxford University)
Derivation:
Oxonian (of or pertaining to or characteristic of Oxford University)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A city in southern England to the northwest of London; site of Oxford University
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Meronyms (parts of "Oxford"):
Oxford; Oxford University (a university in England)
Meronyms (members of "Oxford"):
Oxonian (a native or resident of Oxford)
Holonyms ("Oxford" is a part of...):
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
Derivation:
Oxonian (of or pertaining to or characteristic of the city of Oxford, England, or its inhabitants)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A university town in northern Mississippi; home of William Faulkner
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Oxford" is a part of...):
Empire State of the South; GA; Ga.; Georgia; Peach State (a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
Context examples:
His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been to Eton and Oxford.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I went out about midday to transact some business in Oxford Street.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“We propose a flexitarian diet,” says lead researcher Marco Springmann, from the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
(Model shows pathway to feeding the world, SciDev.Net)
In a new study, led by Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, researchers used a combination of experiments and mathematical models to see what happens when bacteria provoke their competitors.
(Bacteria Can 'Divide and Conquer' to Vanquish Their Enemies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Developed in partnership with the Juazeiro do Norte College, the ABC Medical School, and Oxford Brookes University, in the UK, the research found the association beneficial in 37 patients.
(Music believed to boost hypertension treatment, Agenciabrasil/EBC)
The close-packed throng extended from the other side of the Langham Hotel to Oxford Circus.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When Norton wandered into the intricacies of Kant, Kreis reminded him that all good little German philosophies when they died went to Oxford.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Scientists at ARS’s Natural Product Utilization Research Unit (NPURU) in Oxford, Mississippi, are investigating whether sorghum’s weed-inhibiting properties can be transferred to other crops like rice and used as a bioherbicide.
(Transferring Sorghum’s Weed-Killing Power to Rice, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
The researchers, from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, applied climate and ecological modelling to illustrate how the distribution of major bird groups is linked to climate change over millions of years.
(Past climate change pushed birds from the northern hemisphere to the tropics, University of Cambridge)
But you, or your interpolator, ought to have considered, that it was not my inclination, so was it not decent to praise any animal of our composition before my master Houyhnhnm: And besides, the fact was altogether false; for to my knowledge, being in England during some part of her majesty’s reign, she did govern by a chief minister; nay even by two successively, the first whereof was the lord of Godolphin, and the second the lord of Oxford; so that you have made me say the thing that was not.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
