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oyster
5 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural oysters
plural oysters
Learner's definition of OYSTER
[count]
: a type of shellfish that has a rough shell with two parts and that is eaten both cooked and raw牡蛎；蚝 — see color picture on this page
the world is your oyster
informal ◊ If the world is your oyster, your life is good and you have the ability to do whatever you want to do.你可以随心所欲
- We were young and happy, and the world was our oyster.我们那时年轻快乐，随心所欲。
often attributive
1
a
: any of various marine bivalve mollusks (family Ostreidae) that have a rough irregular shell closed by a single adductor muscle and include commercially important shellfish
b
: any of various mollusks resembling or related to the oysters
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Soon residents will set their sights on a bull and oyster roast and a golf tournament designed to raise funds for scholarships that are given each year. 
Melissa Whatley, Baltimore Sun, 30 Aug. 2022 Actor and comedian Rob Riggle just discovered what a Rocky Mountain oyster is. Keith Langston, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2022 There’s really nothing quite like an oyster happy hour. Aly Walansky, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022 Sandwiches include a lobster roll and an oyster po’ boy. Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2022 In Maine the oyster-growing season lasts only five months, from April to October. Ellen Ruppel Shell, Scientific American, 1 May 2022 Ocean Blue, a restaurant and oyster bar in Utica, New York, which is fully cashless, only receives a few crypto transactions a month. NBC News, 11 Apr. 2022 The safest way to consume an oyster, Farr concluded, is simply to cook it, killing any existing bacteria. Staff And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2022 The death is the second in the state this month traced to the bacteria, Vibrio, found in an oyster. Sun Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2022 See More
Melissa Whatley, Baltimore Sun, 30 Aug. 2022 Actor and comedian Rob Riggle just discovered what a Rocky Mountain oyster is. Keith Langston, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2022 There’s really nothing quite like an oyster happy hour. Aly Walansky, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022 Sandwiches include a lobster roll and an oyster po’ boy. Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2022 In Maine the oyster-growing season lasts only five months, from April to October. Ellen Ruppel Shell, Scientific American, 1 May 2022 Ocean Blue, a restaurant and oyster bar in Utica, New York, which is fully cashless, only receives a few crypto transactions a month. NBC News, 11 Apr. 2022 The safest way to consume an oyster, Farr concluded, is simply to cook it, killing any existing bacteria. Staff And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2022 The death is the second in the state this month traced to the bacteria, Vibrio, found in an oyster. Sun Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Middle English oistre, borrowed from Anglo-French oistre, ostre, going back to Latin ostrea, ostreum "bivalve mollusk, oyster," borrowed from Greek óstreion, óstreon, of uncertain origin
Note: Greek óstreion has traditionally been taken to be a derivative, with a suffix -ei-, of a stem going back to Indo-European *h3esth1-r-, from the base *h3esth1- "bone." See note at ostracon.
First Known Use
13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Time Traveler
The first known use of oyster was in the 13th century Phrases Containing oyster
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