Oakland
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈoʊklənd/
Proper noun edit
Oakland
- The eighth-largest city in California, United States, and the county seat of Alameda County.
- 2022, Namwali Serpell, The Furrows, Hogarth, page 178:
- We climb up and up into the Oakland hills, high enough we can see them spreading below, strung with roads, crusted with houses, fringed with trees.
- A township in Ontario, Canada.
- A town, the county seat of Garrett County, Maryland, United States.
- A city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.
Synonyms edit
- (informal) Oaktown
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Translations edit
the eighth-largest city in the U.S. state of California
See also edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English Oakland.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Oakland m
- Oakland (a city in the United States)