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      oral
      noun
      (countable) A spoken test or examination, particularly in a language class.
      (countable, usually in the plural) A physical examination of the mouth.
      A city in Kazakhstan.
      A male given name from Latin of American usage
      (uncountable, informal) Ellipsis of oral sex. [Stimulation of another person's genitals or anus using the mouth, lips, and/or tongue.]
      (bodybuilding, countable) Ellipsis of oral steroid.
      adjective
      (relational) Relating to the mouth.
      (pharmacology) Done or taken by the mouth.
      (relational) Spoken rather than written.
      Relating to the transmission of information or literature by word of mouth.
      (phonetics, of a speech sound) Pronounced by the voice resonating in the mouth, as the vowels in English.
      (psychoanalysis, in Freudian theory) Relating to or denoting a stage of infantile psychosexual development during which libidinal gratification is derived from intake (as of food), by sucking, and later by biting.
      Of, relating to, or characterized by personality traits of passive dependency and aggressiveness.
      (sociolinguistics, of a society) Not having reached the stage of literacy.
      Using speech or the lips especially in teaching the deaf.
      Roots
      osor- · Latin · mouth
      Synonyms for oral
      unwrittenadjnuncupativeadjverbaladjvivanparollingualn
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