Oscar definition

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A masculine name.
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Any of the statuettes given to those receiving Academy Awards.
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A freshwater cichlid (Astronotus ocellatus) native to South America, having a spot at the base of the tail and often kept in home aquariums.
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A trademark for an award presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for excellence in the creation and production of movies.
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A male given name.
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(Open System for CommunicAtion in Realtime) The technology in AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). The Basic OSCAR Services (BOS) include Login/Logoff, Locate (find other AIM users), Instant Message (send message) and Buddy List management. In 1998, AOL introduced TOC, a subset of OSCAR released under the GNU license, which has been used to write AIM clients for Linux and other operating systems. See AIM and FLAP.
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Astronotus ocellatus, a cichlid fish, native to South America, sometimes kept in aquariums.
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The letter O in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
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A statuette awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
oscar
Plural:
oscars

Origin of oscar

  • 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

  • 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

Oscar Sentence Examples

  • The Norwegian order of knighthood of St Olaf was founded in 1847 by Oscar I., king of Sweden and Norway, in memory of this king.

  • In 1889 the association of the " Union Civica " was founded, and the organization undertaken by Dr Leandro Alem, Dr Aristobulo del Valle, Dr Ber nardo Irigoyen, Dr Vicente Lopez, Dr Lucio Lopez, Dr Oscar Lilliedale and other leading citizens.

  • His Political Memoranda were edited by Oscar Browning for the Camden Society in 1884, and there are eight volumes of his official correspondence in the British Museum.

  • When, in August 1810, Bernadotte was elected crown prince of Sweden, Oscar and his mother removed from Paris to Stockholm (June 1811).

  • Or is it something about them that predates their Oscar triumph and helped them win?

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