OAKLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Oakland mean? 

• OAKLAND (noun)
  The noun OAKLAND has 1 sense:

1. a city in western California on San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco; primarily and industrial urban center

  Familiarity information: OAKLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OAKLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in western California on San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco; primarily and industrial urban center

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Holonyms ("Oakland" is a part of...):

CA; Calif.; California; Golden State (a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes)

 Context examples 

Then it was that Martin wore his overcoat down into Oakland, and came back without it, but with five dollars tinkling in his pocket.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Ruth and her family were home again, and Martin, returned to Oakland, saw much of her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There would then be no way for him to return to Oakland, and he knew no one in San Francisco from whom to borrow another ten cents.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They had dined together in San Francisco, and were at the Ferry Building, returning to Oakland, when the whim came to him to show Martin the "real dirt."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was Sunday night, and they found the small hall packed by the Oakland socialists, chiefly members of the working class.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He slept in Oakland that night, and on Sunday covered the seventy miles back.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It is better than going to sea again, and I shall earn more money than any position in Oakland can bring an unskilled man.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Arrived in Oakland, with his snug pay-day in his pocket, he took up his old room at Bernard Higginbotham's and set to work.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

After breakfast he put the type-writer in its case and carried it down into Oakland.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"But I'm just as able to walk as you in them soles. They're that thin they'll bu'st long before you git out to North Oakland."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)