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# oxford

«oxford» in Mova's school dictionary: **a city in England, famous for its very old university (a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

proper noun (Oxford); noun (an oxford, oxfords — a shoe)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Oxford is a city in England, famous for its very old university (a name). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oxford/#m1)

2) The University of Oxford is one of the oldest universities in the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oxford/#m2)

3) An oxford is a lace-up leather shoe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oxford/#m3)

4) An Oxford comma is a comma before «and» in a list (red, white, and blue). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oxford/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In school, the Oxford Dictionaries and Oxford Reading Tree books are common. In grammar, the «Oxford comma» is a style choice. «Oxford and Cambridge» are the two famous old English universities.

### examples

- Oxford is a city full of old stone colleges. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oxford/#x1)
- My cousin studies at Oxford University. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oxford/#x2)
- We read Oxford Reading Tree books in Year 1. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oxford/#x3)
- He wore black oxfords to the wedding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oxford/#x4)
- Should I use an Oxford comma in this list? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oxford/#x5)
- The Oxford dictionary has thousands of words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oxford/#x6)
- Mr. Tyrwhitt published, A.D. 1776, a Dissertation on Babrias, and a collection of his fables in choliambic metre found in a MS. in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oxford/#x7)

### note

Usually with capital O (a place name). Literally «a ford for oxen» — a place where cattle crossed the river.

### In the corpora

- [Yasmin says the oldest university is in Fez, Morocco; Tom says Oxford.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/5/)
- [Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Dodgson, a mathematics teacher at Christ Church college in Oxford.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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