Usually means: Spoken, not written; by mouth.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word oral:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. Oral, oral: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. oral: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Oral, oral: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. oral: Collins English Dictionary
  5. oral: Vocabulary.com
  6. Oral, oral: Wordnik
  7. oral: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Oral, oral: Wiktionary
  9. oral: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. oral: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. oral: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. oral: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. oral: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Oral (disambiguation), Oral: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Oral: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. oral: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. oral: Rhymezone
  18. oral, oral, oral(e) (-aux): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. oral: Free Dictionary
  20. oral: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Oral: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. oral: Dictionary.com
  23. oral: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Body Piercing Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Body Piercing Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Oral: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. oral: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. oral: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oral: Encyclopedia

Medicine (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Oral: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Orthodontic Terms (No longer online)
  4. Oral: UK Medical Acronyms
  5. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. oral: Sound Alike Words
  7. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  9. oral: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  10. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  11. oral: Medical dictionary
  12. Oral: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ORAL: Acronym Finder
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See orality as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (relational) Relating to the mouth.
adjective:  (pharmacology) Done or taken by the mouth.
adjective:  (phonetics, of a speech sound) Pronounced by the voice resonating in the mouth, as the vowels in English.
adjective:  (psychoanalysis, in Freudian theory) Relating to or denoting a stage of infantile psychosexual development during which libidinal gratification is derived from intake (as of food), by sucking, and later by biting.
adjective:  Of, relating to, or characterized by personality traits of passive dependency and aggressiveness.
adjective:  (relational) Spoken rather than written.
adjective:  Relating to the transmission of information or literature by word of mouth.
adjective:  Using speech or the lips especially in teaching the deaf.
adjective:  (sociolinguistics, of a society) Not having reached the stage of literacy.
noun:  (countable) A spoken test or examination, particularly in a language class.
noun:  (countable, usually in the plural) A physical examination of the mouth.
noun:  A male given name from Latin of American usage
noun:  A city in Kazakhstan
noun:  (uncountable, informal) Ellipsis of oral sex. [Stimulation of another person's genitals or anus using the mouth.]
noun:  (bodybuilding, countable) Ellipsis of oral steroid..

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