oval

1. 1.

   a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it

   “the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant”

   Synonymsellipse

   Broaderconic section

   Narrowercircle

1. 1.

   rounded like an egg

   Synonymsegg-shapedellipticellipticaloval-shapedovateoviformovoidprolate

   Similarrounded

Other forms of oval

plural

ovals·

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 oval

What does oval mean?

oval means "a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in oval?

oval has 2 syllables: o-val. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊvəl/.

What is another word for oval?

Close synonyms include ellipse, egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval-shaped. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is oval a common word?

oval 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.