oxford

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Noun

HYPHEN

Ox=ford

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun oxford has 4 senses

oxford(n = noun.location) - a city in southern England to the northwest of London; site of Oxford University;

has parts:

oxford

oxford university

is a kind of city, metropolis, urban center

is a part of england

Derived form adjective oxonian₂

oxford(n = noun.location) - a university town in northern Mississippi; home of William Faulkner;

is a kind of

town

is a part of empire state of the south, ga, georgia, peach state

oxford(n = noun.artifact) oxford university - a university in England;

is a kind of university

is a part of oxford

Derived form adjective oxonian₁

oxford(n = noun.artifact) - a low shoe laced over the instep;

is a kind of shoe

CIDE DICTIONARY

oxford, prop. a.

Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England. [1913 Webster]

Oxford movement. See Tractarianism. -- Oxford School, a name given to those members of the Church of England who adopted the theology of the so-called Oxford “Tracts for the Times,” issued the period 1833 -- 1841. Shipley. -- Oxford tie, a kind of shoe, laced on the instep, and usually covering the foot nearly to the ankle.