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Oakland

proper noun

  1. port city and county seat of Alameda County, California, United States
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈoʊklənd/ / /ˈəʊklənd/

name

Etymology: By proprialization of oak + -land, as likewise with Oakwood from oakwood.

  1. A township in Ontario, Canada.
  2. A number of places in the United States, including:

    There’s a YIMBY group in Somerville, Massachusetts, and one in Los Angeles; there’s a San Francisco YIMBY party and a YIMBY group in Portland. YIMBYtown, a national conference, will take place in Oakland this month; Helsinki is hosting Yimbycon in August.

    We climb up and up into the Oakland hills, high enough we can see them spreading below, strung with roads, crusted with houses, fringed with trees.

  3. A number of places in the United States, including:
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Oakland — meaning, definition (proper noun) · Vinony