oval

noun

1. An elongated round shape resembling an ellipse or an egg.

   “Near-synonym: ellipse”

2. An elongated round shape resembling an ellipse or an egg.
3. A thing having such a shape, such as an arena.

   “At the far end of the wide corridor were the doors of a ward. The panels were frosted save for ovals of clear glass at face level.”

4. (Australia)A sports field, typically but not exclusively oval in shape.
5. In a projective plane, a set of points such that no three are collinear and there is a unique tangent line at each point.

adj

1. Having the shape of an oval.
2. Of or pertaining to an ovum.

   “oval conceptions”

   “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.”

name

1. A cricket ground in South London.
2. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of Oval Office.

   “We went to the Oval and Trump came in almost immediately […]”

   “Musk, wearing a black “DOGE” cap and black “Dogefather” T-shirt, looked around the Oval, which Trump has tarted up to look like a Vegas gift shop, and gushed that it “finally has the majesty that it deserves, thanks to the president.””