Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A sturdy, low shoe that laces over the instep.
- n. A cotton cloth of a tight basket weave, used primarily for shirts.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a university in England
- n. a university town in northern Mississippi; home of William Faulkner
- n. a low shoe laced over the instep
- n. a city in southern England to the northwest of London; site of Oxford University
Etymologies
- After Oxford , England. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Nothing says "grass-roots effort" like talk show hosts and people dressed in oxford shirts and north face fleece with the Code Red logo embroidered on it.”
“i live in oxford and going down to london afterwards was the creepiest and coolest experience. especially the tube!”
“Apart from tonight, as I just returned from clothes shopping in oxford street, so you'll bear with me. (”
“Another favorite is the laced low shoe, known as the oxford, made for both men and women.”
The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession
“Trinity Colledg is the ffinest, yet not so Large as Christ-church College in oxford.”
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
“An alternative to the oxford is a nice, lightweight sweater.”
“For instance, try typing "oxford" into the address bar to go directly to the university's home page at www. ox.ac.uk.”
“Girls in dresses with matching striped tights and boys in corduroy pants and oxford shirts run ahead of their parents down to the basement where they attend Church School during the first half of worship.”
“He was still wearing his blue oxford shirt from work but had left the tie and jacket somewhere.”
“Roxanne stood next to him in the photo, her nails grazing the sleeve of his rolled-up white oxford shirt.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘oxford’.
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phrontistery - o
from phrontistery.info
oakum, oakus, oast, obambulate, obdormition, obduracy, obedible, obedientiary, obeism, obeliscolychny, obelize, obelus and 504 more...
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English Counties, Districts, Boroughs
northumberland, tyne and wear, newcastle upon tyne, gateshead, north tyneside, south tyneside, sunderland, cumbria, carlisle, allerdale, eden, copeland and 348 more...
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Good Words
fenestering, cetic, immanent, quickening, archetypal, shibboleth, soma, wetware, heritable, Apotheosis, halcyon, cellar door and 482 more...
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Hampsteader's list
Just some words i like . . .
bilkirkegaard, frost, flaxen, snow, quoin, quern, westering, deer, antler, solstice, autumn, autumnal and 114 more...
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Some Words I Love to Use
arcology, strumpet, crux, confected, pedant, bluestocking, cogitation, incensed, lovecraftian, cygnet, dactyl, adytum and 539 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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"A List of His MAJESTY's Ships and Ve...
Boston: Re-Printed and Sold at J. Draper's Printing-Office in Newbury-Street. (Price Sixteen Pence single.)
See the companion list, A LIST of the Men of War the French have left," 174...apollo, deptford, portsmouth, princess royal, scarborough, sutherland, william and mary, mary, fubbs, dublin, charlotte, catherine and 302 more...
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Fabrics
Woven, knit and tatted fabrics. Other kinds of cloth, such as tapa and chamois are not included.
shikii, shantung, cotton, linen, tweed, wool, velour, velvet, velveteen, gabardine, chenille, silk and 550 more...
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yardage
types of fabric
cotton, wool, silk, linen, rayon, nylon, spandex, lycra, lurex, goretex, challis, brocade and 77 more...
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eponymous fabrics or articles of clot...
several of these characters seem to have been involved in the Crimean War
cardigan, balbriggan, balaclava, raglan, macintosh, madras, cashmere, angora, denim, oxford, wigan, bloomers and 24 more...
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Yes, minister
bennite, preposterous, exiguous, honours, dangerous precedent, interdepartmental, committee, repercussions, precipitate, oxford, churchillian, minister and 45 more...
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list of funny sounding brands
coke, aldi, dell, ludwig, epiphone, telstra, alfred's, jb's, marbig, windows, apple, crunchy and 17 more...
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Dressed To Kill
Words ranging from smartly sartorial to embarrassingly ornate.
bedizen, frippet, haberdashery, peacock, spatterdashes, monocle, popinjay, coxcomb, dandiprat, carpet knight, ascot, pulchritudinous and 43 more...
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Fabrications
cotton, wool, silk, polyester, microfiber, corduroy, flannel, gabardine, quilt, linen, tapestry, nylon and 65 more...
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only the longest threads
duck, dimity, denim, chambray, chenille, voile, twill, gauze, canvas, percale, corduroy, organdy and 10 more...
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The Ivy League
harvard, yale, princeton, cambridge, oxford, penn, cornell, brown
Tweets
Looking for tweets for oxford.
yarb Obs. UK slang for a crown (five shillings).
"I thereupon entered the cat wagon, the lion's cage, for a formal dekko.
Truly a magnificent tawny specimen, his name was Charlie. The feller Bill Smythe told me that he had had him for a song (a cub worth a thousand quid for 'arf an Oxford!)..."
- G.V. Desani, All About H. Hatterr (1945), p. 76 of NYRB 2008 edition Dec 31, 2008