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oaters

oaters is the plural of oater.

Meaning of oater

Noun

oater (plural oaters)

  1. (US, informal) A movie or television show about cowboy or frontier life; a western movie.
    • In recent years the western or horse opera, known in the trade as the "oater," has come to be recognized as an art form just as formal as the ballet or the symphony. […] To prove his contention that all this is so, Life Photographer John Florea took these unusual pictures during the filming of...1949 January 10, “The Great American Horse Opera”, in Life

Questions about oaters

What is oaters the plural of?
Oaters is the plural of oater.

Words near oaters in the dictionary

  1. oaten
  2. oaten bread
  3. oaten breads
  4. oatenmeal
  5. oater
  6. oaters
  7. Oates
  8. Oatey
  9. oatflake
  10. oatflakes
  11. oatgrass

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