Usually means: Durable hardwood tree, produces acorns.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. oak: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. oak: Merriam-Webster
  3. oak: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. oak: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. oak: Collins English Dictionary
  6. oak: Vocabulary.com
  7. Oak, oak: Wordnik
  8. oak: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. OAK, oak: Wiktionary
  10. oak: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. oak: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. oak: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. OAK: Dictionary.com
  14. oak: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. oak: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. OAK, Oak (band), Oak (disambiguation), Oak (flavoured milk), Oak (programming language), Oak (wine), Oak (wood), Oak, The Oak: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Oak: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. oak: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. oak: Rhymezone
  20. oak: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. oak: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Oak: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. Oak: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. oak: FreeDictionary.org
  25. oak: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. oak: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. oak: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  3. Oak: Dictionary of Symbolism

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oak: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. oak: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. OAK: Acronym Finder
  2. OAK: Three Letter Words with definitions
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  4. oak: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Oak: Easton Bible
  2. Oak: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)
  2. Garden Flower, Shrub and Tree Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. oak: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Oak, Oak: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See oaken as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable) A deciduous tree with distinctive deeply lobed leaves, acorns, and notably strong wood, typically of England and northeastern North America, included in genus Quercus.
noun:  (uncountable) The wood of the oak.
noun:  A rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.
noun:  Any tree of the genus Quercus, in family Fagaceae.
noun:  Any tree of other genera and species of trees resembling typical oaks of genus Quercus in some ways.
noun:  The she-oaks in Allocasuarina and Casuarina, of family Casuarinaceae
noun:  Lagunaria, white oak, in family Malvaceae
noun:  Various species called silky oak, in family Proteaceae
noun:  Toxicodendron, poison oak, in family Anacardiaceae
noun:  Various tanbark oak or stone oak species in family Fagaceae, genera Lithocarpus and Notholithocarpus.
noun:  The outer (lockable) door of a set of rooms in a college or similar institution. (Often in the phrase sport one's oak.)
noun:  (wine) The flavor of oak.
adjective:  Having a rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.
adjective:  Made of oak wood or timber.
verb:  (wine, transitive) To expose to oak in order for the oak to impart its flavors.

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