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# oscar

«oscar» in Mova's school dictionary: **a gold statue given each year as a top prize for films…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun, name (an Oscar, Oscars; Oscar — a boy's name)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An Oscar is a gold statue given each year as a top prize for films, also called an Academy Award. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oscar/#m1)

2) Oscar is a boy's name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oscar/#m2)

3) In the spelling alphabet used on radios, "Oscar" stands for the letter O. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oscar/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, the Oscars are a famous film award show in Hollywood, USA. In stories and class, Oscar is a common name. Pilots, police and sailors say "Oscar" for O so letters are not misheard (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie…).

### examples

- The film won three Oscars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oscar/#x1)
- She was nominated for an Oscar for best actress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oscar/#x2)
- My best friend is called Oscar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oscar/#x3)
- We watched the Oscars on TV. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oscar/#x4)
- In the radio alphabet, O is "Oscar". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oscar/#x5)
- Oscar the cat sleeps on my bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oscar/#x6)

### note

Name and prize are written with a capital O. Plural for the prizes: Oscars. Not a common word otherwise.

### In the corpora

- [Vivid example: in a kitchen in Cork, Mum watches the breakfast show while Oscar eats his cereal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/3/)
- [Oscar swears a kid at his cousin's school skipped a whole year and nobody noticed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/0/)
- [Oscar argued for ten minutes that a whale is a fish.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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