Oxon
noun
Oxon
1 American
[ok-son, -suhn]
/ ˈɒk sɒn, -sən /
noun
Oxon.
2
American
abbreviation
Oxon.
3
American
abbreviation
Oxon.
1
British
/ ˈɒksən /
abbreviation
Oxon
2
British
abbreviation
Etymology
Origin of Oxon.2
From the Medieval Latin word Oxonia
Origin of Oxon.3
From the Medieval Latin word Oxoniēnsis
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She was a major part of the show, dancing with her husband throughout their Oxon Hill, Md., performance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
The market town is "one of those places where everyone knows everybody", said Reverend Charlotte Gompertz, the vicar of Shelton and Oxon.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2023
The authorities did not provide an account of how he had been caught or why Mr. Haynes had been in Oxon Hill.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
The Oxon Hill native hauled in six balls for a career-high 108 yards and the first-quarter touchdown, with 80 of those yards coming after the catch.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 2, 2023
The village stands at the neck dividing two of the high vales of North Oxon, the Lias ironstone covering all the high lands thereabouts.
From Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield by Edwin Walford
With Old Harrovian Winston Churchill back in power, His Majesty's ministers now boast 21 old Eton, Harrow or Winchester men; 27 Oxon. or Cantab.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oxon., sold to James Thompson of Wallingford, in co.
From Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
Oxon. with MSS. notes by Malone, was given by Mr. B. H. Bright in 1835.
From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by William Dunn Macray
For more minute particulars of the life of this person, and a catalogue of his writings, see Wood's Athenæ Oxon., edit.
From Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various
An Astrological Judgment upon his Majesty's present March, begun from Oxon. 7th of May 1645 printed in 4to.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II by Theophilus Cibber
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