Oaks

/ əʊks /

noun

1. a horse race for fillies held annually at Epsom since 1779: one of the classics of English flat racing

2. any of various similar races

Word History and Origins

Origin of Oaks¹

named after an estate near Epsom

Example Sentences

The treed “Woodland Garden” to the west, with black tupelo and swamp white oaks, gives way to a “Perennial Meadow,” whose asters, purple beebalms and orange butterfly weed were chosen for their chromatic effect.

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Soto in Thousand Oaks decided to search for a Liverpool jersey in California.

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“The UPS guy said he couldn’t release it unless I paid more,” said Soto, who owns the Historia Bakery Cafe in Thousand Oaks.

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The gardens are designed to have more than 200 species of plants and trees, including palms, oaks, sycamores, succulents and olives.

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Eight years ago, the Reds drafted right-handed pitcher Hunter Greene second overall out of Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks.

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