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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024o•ral /ˈɔrəl/USA pronunciation adj. - made or expressed by the mouth;
spoken:oral testimony; oral exams. - Linguisticsof, using, or carried by speech:oral teaching methods.
- Anatomyinvolving the mouth:oral hygiene.
n. [countable] Usually, orals. [plural] - an oral examination in a school, college, or university.
o•ral•ly, adv. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024o•ral (ôr′əl, ōr′-),USA pronunciation adj. - uttered by the mouth;
spoken:oral testimony. - Linguisticsof, using, or transmitted by speech:oral methods of language teaching; oral traditions.
- Anatomyof, pertaining to, or involving the mouth:the oral cavity.
- done, taken, or administered through the mouth:an oral dose of medicine.
- Phoneticsarticulated with none of the voice issuing through the nose, as the normal English vowels and the consonants b andv.
- Psychology, Psychiatry
- of or pertaining to the earliest phase of infantile psychosexual development, lasting from birth to one year of age or longer, during which pleasure is obtained from eating, sucking, and biting.
- of or pertaining to the sublimation of feelings experienced during the oral stage of childhood:oral anxiety.
- of or pertaining to gratification by stimulation of the lips or membranes of the mouth, as in sucking, eating, or talking
- Zoologypertaining to that surface of polyps and marine animals that contains the mouth and tentacles.
n. - an oral examination in a school, college, or university, given esp. to a candidate for an advanced degree.
- Latin ōr- (stem of ōs) mouth (cognate with Sanskrit āsya) + -al1
- 1615–25
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