Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

food oasis

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English

Syllables: food oa-sis
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An urban environment with an abundance of grocery stores, and thus, inmediate access to healthy food.

Etymology

Earliest known use appears c. 2007 in a research article by Darcy A. Freeman.

Inflected Forms

food oases (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

food desert food swamp

Questions

What does food oasis mean?: An urban environment with an abundance of grocery stores, and thus, inmediate access to healthy food.
Where does food oasis come from?: Earliest known use appears c. 2007 in a research article by Darcy A. Freeman.

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