Oxen (Noun)
Meaning
Domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen".
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The farmer owned a large herd of oxen that he used to plow his fields.
- The team of oxen pulled a heavy wooden wagon filled with fresh produce to the market.
- She spent the afternoon helping her father tend to the oxen in the nearby pasture.
- It took a patient farmer to properly train and care for a large group of oxen.
- The oxen grazed peacefully in the green meadow, completely unaware of the storm brewing on the horizon.