Oval
English
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Pronunciation
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Proper noun
[edit]the Oval
- (cricket) A cricket ground in South London.
- Alternative form: The Oval
- (US politics) Ellipsis of Oval Office.
- 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 28:
- We went to the Oval and Trump came in almost immediately […]
- 2025 May 31, Maureen Dowd, “Tech Bro Had to Go”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- Musk, wearing a black “DOGE” cap and black “Dogefather” T-shirt, looked around the Oval, which Trump has tarted up to look like a Vegas gift shop, and gushed that it “finally has the majesty that it deserves, thanks to the president.”
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Noun
[edit]Oval n (strong, genitive Ovals, plural Ovale)
Further reading
[edit]- “Oval” in Duden online