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oral
has definitions from the fields of education,psychoanalysis,anatomy
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[ adjective ] using speech rather than writing
Synonyms Examples "an oral tradition" "an oral agreement Used in print (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)Folklore is individually created art that a homogeneous group of people preserve , vary and recreate through oral transmission . Related to written literature , and often remaining temporarily frozen in written form , it loses its vitality when transcribed or removed from its oral existence . Enthusiastically , Americans have swept subliterary and bogus materials like Paul_Bunyan tales , Abe_Lincoln anecdotes and labor_union songs up as true products of our American oral tradition . Nor have we remembered that in the melting_pot of America the hundreds of isolated and semi isolated ethnic , regional and occupational groups did not fuse into a homogeneous national unit until long after education and industrialization had caused them to cast oral tradition aside as a means of carrying culturally significant material . On the one side we have the university professors and their students , trained in Teutonic methods of research , who have sought_out , collected and studied the true products of the oral traditions of the ethnic , regional and occupational groups that make_up this nation . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (psychoanalysis) a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated in the mouth; fixation at this stage is said to result in dependence, selfishness, and aggression
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[ adjective ] of or relating to or affecting or for use in the mouth
Examples "oral hygiene" "an oral thermometer" "an oral vaccine" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (education) an examination conducted by word of mouth
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