<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>uttered by the mouth; spoken: oral testimony.</li><li>of, using, or transmitted by speech: oral methods of language teaching; oral traditions.</li><li>of, relating to, or involving the mouth: the oral cavity.</li><li>done, taken, or administered through the mouth: an oral dose of medicine.</li><li>Phonetics. articulated with none of the voice issuing through the nose, as the normal English vowels and the consonants b and v.</li><li>Psychoanalysis. of or relating to the earliest phase of infantile psychosexual development, lasting from birth to one year of age or longer, during which pleasure is obtained from eating, sucking, and biting.</li><li>of or relating to the sublimation of feelings experienced during the oral stage of childhood: oral anxiety.</li><li>of or relating to gratification by stimulation of the lips or membranes of the mouth, as in sucking, eating, or talking.</li><li>Zoology. pertaining to that surface of polyps and marine animals that contains the mouth and tentacles.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an oral examination in a school, college, or university, given especially to a candidate for an advanced degree.</li></ul>