Oxen - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈɑːksən|  American pronunciation of the word oxen
Brit.  |ˈɒksn|  British pronunciation of the word oxen
- this word is used as a plural form of the noun ox

noun

- domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age (syn: cattle, kine)
a team of oxen

Extra examples

Horses and oxen have been domesticated to work on farms.

They used oxen to plow the field.

The two oxen were yoked together.

Oxen are harnessed to the villagers' carts to pull them through the muddy streets.

Our oxen scented the water at a distance.

In those days the land was plowed by oxen.

The oxen moved slowly in the heat, and had to be goaded on by their drivers.

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