Oakland

American  

[ohk-luhnd] / ˈoʊk lənd /

noun

1. a seaport in W California, on San Francisco Bay.

2. a town in NE New Jersey.

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Oakland British  

/ ˈəʊklənd /

noun

1. a port and industrial centre in W California, on San Francisco Bay; damaged by earthquake in 1989. Pop: 398 844 (2003 est)

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Oakland Cultural  

1. City in northern California on the east side of San Francisco Bay.

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Example Sentences

I had returned to my hometown after five years in Seattle, and five more as a beat writer covering the Oakland Raiders.

From Los Angeles Times

In Oakland, hundreds demonstrated peacefully on Sunday, although the night before, protesters assembled at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and left graffiti, according to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle.

From Los Angeles Times

According to Nick Foster, a designer and writer based in Oakland, Calif., we shouldn’t.

From The Wall Street Journal

Soskin grew up in a Cajun-Creole African American family that settled in Oakland after a historic flood devastated their home in New Orleans in 1927, according to her Park Service biography.

From Los Angeles Times

Mittal, founder of the Oakland Institute, a human rights and development focused think tank in California, described Magnum's approach as a "public smear campaign" and said the allegations were unfounded.

From BBC