oakwood

oakwood noun: a wood populated with oak trees.

Noun

oakwood (countable and uncountable, plural oakwoods)

(countable) A wood populated with oak trees.
- He says moreover the Earl of Galloway had an oakwood of three miles extent along the Cree, whence a great part of Wigtonshire is supplied with timber[…]1824, George Chalmers, Caledonia, volume 3, page 280
- She stood there for a moment, entirely alone in the dreaming oakwoods […]
(uncountable) The wood of the oak tree.
- Then I ran into the wilderness again of Wolf Creek, and spent 25 cents of the last little money I had in buying a can of salmon, which I devoured sitting on a log in the forest, and came at night to Grave Creek, and split a pile of oakwood, getting a good supper thereby and a long talk with the...1887, Morley Roberts, “Oregon Underfoot”, in The Western Avernus or Toil and Travel in Further North America, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], page 252
- When you went in the heavy front doors of Grandpa Cook’s house, the first impression was of burning oakwood. […] The room I always slept in there, and that was especially for grandchildren, was a gloom. It had a no-lived-in feeling, no magic, no smell of its own, except that of the all-penetrating...1933, Mabel Dodge Luhan, “Grandma Cook in Her House”, in Intimate Memories: Background, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, pages 124 and 135

Oakwood

A neighbourhood of Birchwood, Warrington borough, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ6591).
A suburb and housing estate in Derby, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK3838).
A suburb in the borough of Enfield, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ2995).
A small village in Sandhoe parish and Acomb parish (West Oakwood), Northumberland (OS grid ref NY9565).
A suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE3336).
A hamlet south-east of Coupar Angus, Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO2537).
A locality in the Inverell council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
A rural locality in Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia.
A community in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada.
A neighbourhood of Venice, Los Angeles, California.
A city in Hall County, Georgia.
A village and township in Vermilion County, Illinois.

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திரிபிலைக்கருவாலிக்காடு

It had a no-lived-in feeling, no magic, no smell of its own, except that of the all-penetrating burning oakwood.1933, Mabel Dodge Luhan, “Grandma Cook in Her House”, in Intimate Memories: Background, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, pages...
The Marlfox ignored the jibe, listening to the steady ring of axeblades against oakwood.1998, Brian Jacques, “Act Three: The Queen’s Island”, in Marlfox (Redwall), London: Hutchinson Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 296:

plural	oakwoods
alternative form	oak wood

From Old English āc wudu; equivalent to oak + wood.

By proprialization from oakwood, as likewise with Oakland from oak + -land.

What does oakwood mean?: Oakwood means a wood populated with oak trees.
What is oakwood in Tamil?: Oakwood in Tamil is திரிபிலைக்கருவாலிக்காடு. See Oakwood meaning in Tamil.
How do you use oakwood in a sentence?: It had a no-lived-in feeling, no magic, no smell of its own, except that of the all-penetrating burning oakwood.
What part of speech is oakwood?: Oakwood can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of oakwood?: The plural of oakwood is oakwoods.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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