Oral

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The term oral (Latin roughly through the mouth, to the mouth, or relating to the oral cavity) may refer to: In linguistics:

• Oral, an adjective, as in oral sex or oral hygiene.
• Oral, a noun, indicating spoken communication. As in oral exam or oral history.

In geography:

• Oral, Kazakhstan, a city in western Kazakhstan, along the Ural (Zhayyq) River.
• The Kingdom of Oral (French: Royaume d'Oral), an old name for the Principality of Bethio on the Senegal River in West Africa, used in the 18th Century.

As a person:

• Oral Roberts, an American televangelist.
• Orel Hershiser, a baseball player.

As a school:

• Oral Roberts University, a Christian university named after Oral Roberts.
• Oral schools are schools for the deaf that use the instructional method known as oralism.