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Antonyms for oral

Grammar : Adj
Spell : awr-uh l, ohr-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɔr əl, ˈoʊr-


Definition of oral

Origin :
  • 1620s, from Late Latin oralis, from Latin os (genitive oris) "mouth, opening, face, entrance," from PIE *os-/*ous- "mouth" (cf. Sanskrit asan "mouth," asyam "mouth, opening," Avestan ah-, Hittite aish, Middle Irish a "mouth," Old Norse oss "mouth of a river," Old English or "beginning, origin, front"). Psychological meaning "of the mouth as the focus of infantile sexual energy" (e.g. oral fixation) is from 1910. The sexual sense is first recorded 1948, in Kinsey. As a noun, "oral examination," attested from 1876. Related: Orally (c.1600); orality.
  • adj spoken
Example sentences :
  • He had made them, written and oral, and had only been laughed at for a half-crazy explorer.
  • Extract from : « Loot of the Void » by Edwin K. Sloat
  • Oral fossa: in Mallophaga, a furrow lying in front of the mandibles.
  • Extract from : « Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology » by John. B. Smith
  • Will men say, 'The later the ballad, the more it is altered in oral tradition'?
  • Extract from : « The Valet's Tragedy and Other Stories » by Andrew Lang
  • That is the type of oral lesson which is most common at the present day.
  • Extract from : « What Is and What Might Be » by Edmond Holmes
  • Several of us had formed a class for oral instruction in French.
  • Extract from : « Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons » by Homer B. Sprague
  • Narrative, as we know from oral tradition, can take forms other than the book.
  • Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
  • The story is not likely to have been preserved to Hauk's time by oral tradition only.
  • Extract from : « The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) » by John Fiske.
  • An oral agreement to this effect was reached late in September.
  • Extract from : « A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year » by Edwin Emerson
  • Most of the associations have also been interested in the employment of the oral method of instruction.
  • Extract from : « The Deaf » by Harry Best
  • The method employed in the day schools is exclusively the oral with but two exceptions.
  • Extract from : « The Deaf » by Harry Best

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