Oscar Definition

ŏskər

noun

A freshwater cichlid (Astronotus ocellatus) native to South America, having a spot at the base of the tail and often kept in home aquariums.

American Heritage

A masculine name.

Webster's New World

A statuette awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Wiktionary

Synonyms:

pronoun

A male given name.

Wiktionary

The letter O in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Oscar

Singular:

oscar

Plural:

oscars

Irish Osgar, from os (“deer") + cara (“friend") ; resuscitated by James Mcpherson in The Works of Ossian (1765). Napoleon, an admirer of the Ossianic poems, chose it for his godson Oscar Bernadotte, who became a king of Sweden. It can also be explained by Old English ōs (“god") and gār (“spear") (see Oswald).

From Wiktionary
Perhaps from the name Oscar given to the fish as a pet or familiar name after New Latin ocellātus the fish's specific epithet from Latin ocellātus having little eyes (from the spot at the base of its tail) ocellated

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition