oakland
IPA: ˈoʊkɫʌnd
Root Word: Oakland
noun
- The eighth-largest city in California, United States, and the county seat of Alameda County.
- A township in Ontario, Canada.
- A town, the county seat of Garrett County, Maryland, United States.
- A city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.
Examples of "oakland" in Sentences
- But Oakland would not be stopped.
- It is surrounded by the city of Oakland.
- The airliner had stopped in Oakland to refuel and reprovision.
- His father was a prominent oculist in San Francisco and Oakland.
- Oakland expanded slowly, leaving much of the land to naturalize.
- The majority of this article is from the History of the Oakland Tribune.
- By the 1870s, the Transcontinental Railroad reached its terminus in Oakland.
- I think then that his brains decayed after he left the rarefied air of Oakland.
- He was quite serviceable in Oakland but never lived up to the high expectations.
- Beginning in fall 2012, Oakland Zoo is linking up with the California Condor Recovery Program to helprehabilitate sick or injured condors.