Definition of oak

"oak" in the noun sense

1. oak

the hard durable wood of any oak used especially for furniture and flooring

2. oak, oak tree

a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus has acorns and lobed leaves

"great oaks grow from little acorns"

Source: WordNet® (An amazing lexical database of English)

Princeton University "About WordNet®."
WordNet®. Princeton University. 2010.


View WordNet® License

Quotations for oak

Many strokes fell the oak. [ Proverb ]

One stroke fells not an oak. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A little man fells a tall oak. [ French Proverb ]

An oak is not felled at one chop. [ Proverb ]

Not a man of iron, but of live oak. [ Garfield ]

The tall oak, towering to the skies,
The fury of the wind defies,
From age to age, in virtue strong.
Inured to stand, and suffer wrong. [ Montgomery ]

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy. [ Aaron Hill ]

The lofty oak from a small acorn grows. [ Lewis Buncombe ]

To cut down an oak, and plant a thistle. [ Proverb ]

A sturdy oak, which nature forms
To brave a hundred winter's storms.
While round its head the whirlwinds blow.
Remains with root infix'd below:
When fell'd to earth, a ship it sails
Through dashing waves and driving gales
And now at sea, again defies
The threatening clouds and howling skies. [ Hoole ]

The mourner yew and builder oak were there. [ Dryden ]

The dureful oak, whose sap is not yet dried. [ Spenser ]

Long ere you cut down an oak with a penknife. [ Proverb ]

A song to the oak, the brave old oak,
Who hath ruled in the greenwood long;
Here's health and renown to his broad,
green crown, And his fifty arms so strong.
There's fear in his frown when the goes down,
And the fire in the West fades out;
And he showeth his might on a wild midnight,
When the storms through his branches shout. [ H. F. Chorley ]

Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. [ Congreve ]

The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees.
Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees.
Three centuries he grows, and three he stays
Supreme in state; and in three more decays. [ Dryden ]

Those green-robed senators of mighty woods.
Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,
Dream, and so dream all night without a stir. [ Keats ]

The oak, when living, monarch of the wood;
The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. [ Churchill ]

What planter will attempt to yoke a sapling wMth a falling oak? [ Swift ]

An oak whose boughs were mossed with age, and high top bald with dry antiquity. [ William Shakespeare ]

The mistletoe hung in the castle hall. The holly branch shone on the old oak wall. [ Thos. Haynes Bayly ]

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects. [ Shenstone ]

The soft drops of rain pierce the hard marble, many strokes overthrow the tallest oak. [ Lyly ]

When the oak-tree is felled, the whole forest echoes with it; but a hundred acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze. [ Carlyle ]

Without woman, man would be rough, rude, solitary, and would ignore all the graces which are but the smiles of love. Woman weaves about him the flowers of life, as the vines of the forest decorate the trunk of the oak with their fragrant garlands. [ Chateaubriand ]

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposing beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field. [ Burke ]

The world produces for every pint of honey a gallon of gall, for every dram of pleasure a pound of pain, for every inch of mirth an ell of moan; and as the ivy twines around the oak, so does misery and misfortune encompass the happy man. Felicity, pure and unalloyed felicity, is not a plant of earthly growth: her gardens are the skies. [ Robert Burton ]

oak in Scrabble®

The word oak is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters oak:

OAK
(21)
OAK
(21)
OAK
(21)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word oak

OAK
(21)
OAK
(21)
OAK
(21)
OAK
(17)
OAK
(14)
OAK
(14)
OAK
(14)
OAK
(13)
OAK
(12)
OAK
(9)
OAK
(9)
OAK
(8)
OAK
(8)
OAK
(7)

The 14 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In oak

OAK
(21)
OAK
(21)
OAK
(21)
OAK
(17)
OAK
(14)
OAK
(14)
OAK
(14)
OAK
(13)
OAK
(12)
OAK
(9)
OAK
(9)
OAK
(8)
OAK
(8)
OAK
(7)

oak in Words With Friends™

The word oak is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters oak:

OAK
(21)
OAK
(21)
OAK
(21)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word oak

OAK
(21)
OAK
(21)
OAK
(21)
OAK
(19)
OAK
(17)
OAK
(14)
OAK
(14)
OAK
(14)
OAK
(13)
OAK
(12)
OAK
(9)
OAK
(9)
OAK
(8)
OAK
(8)
OAK
(7)

The 15 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In oak

OAK
(21)
OAK
(21)
OAK
(21)
OAK
(19)
OAK
(17)
OAK
(14)
OAK
(14)
OAK
(14)
OAK
(13)
OAK
(12)
OAK
(9)
OAK
(9)
OAK
(8)
OAK
(8)
OAK
(7)

Words within the letters of oak

3 letter words in oak (1 word)

oak + 1 blank (7 words)

Word Growth involving oak

Shorter words in oak

(No shorter words found)

Longer words containing oak

cloak cloakanddagger cloakanddaggers

cloak cloaked recloaked

cloak cloaked uncloaked

cloak cloaking recloaking

cloak cloaking uncloaking

cloak cloakless

cloak cloakmaker cloakmakers

cloak cloakmaking

cloak cloakroom cloakrooms

cloak cloaks recloaks

cloak cloaks uncloaks

cloak recloak recloaked

cloak recloak recloaker recloakers

cloak recloak recloaking

cloak recloak recloaks

cloak uncloak uncloakable

cloak uncloak uncloaked

cloak uncloak uncloaking

cloak uncloak uncloaks

coak coaked

coak coaker coakers

coak coaking coakings

coak coaks

croak croaked

croak croaker croakers

croak croakier

croak croakiest

croak croakily

croak croakiness

croak croaking

croak croaks

croak croaky

oaken

oakleaf

oaklike

oaks cloaks recloaks

oaks cloaks uncloaks

oaks coaks

oaks croaks

oaks soaks oversoaks

oaks soaks resoaks presoaks

oaks soaks undersoaks

soak oversoak oversoaked

soak oversoak oversoaking

soak oversoak oversoaks

soak resoak presoak presoaked

soak resoak presoak presoaking

soak resoak presoak presoaks

soak resoak resoaked presoaked

soak resoak resoaking presoaking

soak resoak resoaks presoaks

soak soakage soakages

soak soakaway soakaways

soak soaked bloodsoaked

soak soaked oversoaked

soak soaked resoaked presoaked

soak soaked undersoaked

soak soaked unsoaked

soak soaked watersoaked

soak soaker soakers

soak soaking oversoaking

soak soaking resoaking presoaking

soak soaking soakingly

soak soaking soakings

soak soaking undersoaking

soak soaks oversoaks

soak soaks resoaks presoaks

soak soaks undersoaks

soak soaky

soak undersoak undersoaked

soak undersoak undersoaking

soak undersoak undersoaks