oz
/aʊns/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Ellipsis of Land of Oz, the fictional setting created by L. Frank Baum for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and other works. The term has been extended from the original country of Oz to the entire fictional world of Oz. Subsequently used as a setting by other authors and artists.
name
A male given name.
name
A male given name.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "Add 8 oz of flour."
- "Selling reefer was a round-the-clock hustle that required more time and energy than I wanted to invest. Unloading a single O.Z. sometimes took up to an hour."
- "Cool. I'll take a large 3 cheese, a 2-Liter of Coke, one ohzee of Purple Cush..."
- "The standard basketball weighs twenty-two oh-zees. But right now, it's weightless. It floats. Oh, what it is to be alive."
- "This provision maintains the OZ designation process from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and adds that at least 33 percent of designated OZs must be comprised entirely of a rural area."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: oz., Öz
Usage
- Uncountable
- Colloquial
- American usage
- Slang
Inflected Forms
ozs (plural)
oz. (alternative)
Ozes (plural)
Öz (alternative)
Ooz (alternative)
Oez (alternative)
Œz (alternative)
Ez (alternative)
O.Z. (alternative)
ohzee (alternative)
oh-zee (alternative)
oh zee (alternative)