oakland

1. 1.

   a city in western California on San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco; primarily and industrial urban center

   Broadercityport

   Part ofCalifornia

Other forms of oakland

plural

oaklands·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about oakland

What does oakland mean?

oakland means "a city in western California on San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco; primarily and industrial urban center".

How many syllables are in oakland?

oakland has 2 syllables: oa-kland. The stress falls on "oa". In IPA it is /ˈoʊklənd/.

Is oakland a common word?

oakland is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.