Associations to the word «Oates»

Wiktionary

OATES, proper noun. A surname​.

Dictionary definition

OATES, noun. English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705).
OATES, noun. United States writer (born in 1938).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope