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say it: AW-skur
oscar is a noun meaning "an annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance". It carries one recorded sense.
an annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for oscar come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.