oval

From Late Latin ovalis, from ovum; cognate with French and Italian ovale, Dutch ovaal. From 1570.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvəl/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊvəl/
• Rhymes: -əʊvəl

oval (plural ovals)

1. An elongated round shape resembling an egg or ellipse.
2. A thing having such a shape, such as an arena.
3. (mathematics) In a projective plane, a set of points such that no three are collinear and there is a unique tangent line at each point.
4. (Australia) A sports field, typically but not exclusively oval in shape.

oval (comparative more oval, superlative most oval)

1. Having the shape of an oval.
2. Of or pertaining to an ovum.
   • 1901, Havelock Ellis, Sexual inversion, page 187:

     Every congenital abnormality is doubtless due to a peculiarity in the sperm or oval elements or in their mingling, or to some disturbance in their early development.

   oval conceptions

• Any of the English adjectives derived from Latin ovum (including oval, ovate, ovoid) are typically considered synonymous when referring to egg-like shapes where one end is wider than the other but, out of all of them, oval is the most likely to be used in reference to a symmetrical ellipse.

• ovular, ovate, ovoid, ovaline, elliptical, egg-shaped

• ovoid
• ovum

• vola

oval (epicene, plural ovales)

1. oval (oval-shaped)

• ovaláu

From ou +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [uˈβal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [oˈval]

oval m or f (masculine and feminine plural ovals)

1. oval

   Synonym: ovalat

oval m (plural ovals)

1. oval

• ovoide

• “oval”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “oval”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “oval” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “oval” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /oˈvæˀl/

oval c (singular definite ovalen, plural indefinite ovaler)

1. oval (shape)
2. oval (object)

oval (neuter ovalt, plural and definite singular attributive ovale)

1. oval

• “oval” in Den Danske Ordbog

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oval (strong nominative masculine singular ovaler, comparative ovaler, superlative am ovalsten)

1. oval

   Synonyms: eiförmig, eirund

Internationalism, ultimately derived from Medieval Latin ovālis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔo.fal/
• Rhymes: -fal
• Hyphenation: o‧val

oval

1. oval

   Synonyms: lonjong, bulat panjang, bulat telur, jorong

• “oval” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Latin ovalis, from ovum (“egg”).

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oval (neuter singular ovalt, definite singular and plural ovale)

1. oval

oval m (definite singular ovalen, indefinite plural ovaler, definite plural ovalene)

1. an oval

• ovalformet

• “oval” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin ovalis, from ovum (“egg”).

oval (neuter singular ovalt, definite singular and plural ovale)

1. oval

oval m (definite singular ovalen, indefinite plural ovalar, definite plural ovalane)

1. an oval

• “oval” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: o‧val

oval m or f (plural ovais)

1. oval (shaped like an egg)

   Synonyms: ovalado, ovoide

Borrowed from French ovale.

oval m or n (feminine singular ovală, masculine plural ovali, feminine and neuter plural ovale)

1. oval

• IPA^(key): /oˈbal/ [oˈβ̞al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: o‧val

oval m or f (masculine and feminine plural ovales)

1. oval (shaped like an oval)

   Synonym: ovalado

• “oval”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

oval (not comparable)

1. oval (having an elongated round shape)

• elliptisk

oval c

1. an oval (elongated round shape)

• ellips

• oval in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• oval in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• oval in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)