Oscar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔskɑ]

Symbol

Oscar

1. The letter O in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

Etymology

From Middle Irish Oscar, from os (“deer”) + cara (“friend”); resuscitated by James Mcpherson in The Works of Ossian (1765). Napoleon, an admirer of the Ossianic poems, chose it for his godson Oscar Bernadotte, who became a king of Sweden. It can also be explained by Old English ōs (“god”) and gār (“spear”) (see Oswald).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑs.kɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒs.kə/

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Proper noun

Oscar

1. A male given name.
   • 1765 James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian, Tauchnitz 1847, page 192:

     My son, though alone, is brave. Oscar is like a beam of the sky: he turns around, and the people fall.

   • 2005 Marc Cerasini, etc, Operation Hell Gate, HarperEntertainment, →ISBN, page 134:

     Had a funny first name, like Oscar or maybe - no! I remember now. It was Felix. Felix Tanner.

2. The letter O in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

Noun

Oscar (plural Oscars)

1. (informal) An Academy Award.
2. A statuette awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

See also

• (award): Academy Awards

Anagrams

• AOCRs, ASROC, ROSCA, Rasco, Rocas, carso, orcas, sacro-, sarco-

Proper noun

Oscar m

1. A male given name, cognate to Oscar

Proper noun

Oscar

1. A male given name, a variant spelling of Oskar.

Proper noun

Oscar

1. A male given name, a variant spelling of Oskar.

Proper noun

Oscar

1. A male given name, a variant spelling of Oskar.

Alternative forms

• Óscar

Proper noun

Oscar m

1. A male given name, equivalent to English Oscar
2. Academy Awards; Oscar

Alternative forms

• Oskar

Etymology

From English Oscar, from Middle Irish Oscar. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1803.

Proper noun

Oscar c (genitive Oscars)

1. A male given name.

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 30 402 males with the given name Oscar (compared to 43 180 named Oskar) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.