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# oddity

«oddity» in Mova's school dictionary: **A strange or unusual person, thing or event** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an oddity, oddities)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A strange or unusual person, thing or event. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oddity/#m1)

2) Being strange or unusual (uncountable). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oddity/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in stories, science and everyday talk: museums show oddities; nature has oddities like the platypus, a mammal that lays eggs. Phrases: "a bit of an oddity", "an oddity of nature".

### examples

- The platypus is an oddity: a mammal that lays eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oddity/#x1)
- The shop sold oddities like two-headed toy dragons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oddity/#x2)
- It was an oddity that the clock ran backwards. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oddity/#x3)
- Among the plain houses, the purple one was an oddity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oddity/#x4)
- In a class of football fans, the boy who loved opera was an oddity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oddity/#x5)
- The oddity of the noise made us look around. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oddity/#x6)
- The museum's cabinet of oddities was my favourite room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oddity/#x7)

### note

Plural "oddities". From "odd" (strange, and also not even). Odd numbers (1, 3, 5) have nothing to do with oddities, though they share the word "odd".

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «oddity» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oddity/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.