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Oval Office
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English
right|thumb|The Oval Office
Etymology
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Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Oval Office.wav Southern England
Proper noun
Oval office 1
en Q338067 The official office of the President of the United States, located in the West Wing of the White House.
en Oval
en 1998 w:George H. W. Bush; w:Brent Scowcroft w:A World Transformed https://archive.org/details/worldtransformed00bush/ New York w:Alfred A. Knopf 0-679-43248-5 98-13499 1005165299 29 https://archive.org/details/worldtransformed00bush/page/29/ The Oval Office itself is not that large, but it has a special atmosphere about it. Even as I left the presidency, I had the same feeling of awe and reverence for the room as when I first entered it in earlier administrations.
en Kevin Liptak With stiff tariffs he promised now in place, Trump opens a new trade war w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/tariffs-trump-campaign-promise 2025-02-01 Saturday’s tariffs are unlikely to be Trump’s last. The president said himself said in the Oval Office that additional tariffs could come by mid-February on chips, pharmaceuticals, steel, aluminum, copper, oil and gas imports – along with tariffs on the European Union – all threats that few would discount given his willingness to follow through on the North American and China tariffs on Saturday. https://web.archive.org/web/20251121094734/https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/tariffs-trump-campaign-promise 21 November 2025
en US metonym The US presidency and its administration.
Translations
office of the President of the United States
Arabic: ar الْمَكْتَب الْبَيْضَاوِيّ m definite
Armenian: hy օվալաձև աշխատասենյակ
Bulgarian: bg Ова́лен кабине́т m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 橢圓形辦公室 tuǒyuánxíng bàngōngshì
Czech: cs Oválná pracovna f
Estonian: et Ovaalkabinet
Finnish: fi Oval Office
French: fr Bureau ovale m
Georgian: ka ოვალური ოფისი, ka ოვალური კაბინეტი
German: de Oval Office n
Hungarian: hu Ovális Iroda
Italian: it Studio Ovale m
Japanese: ja 大統領執務室 だいとうりょうしつむしつ, daitōryō shitsumushitsu presidential office, ja オーバルオフィス ōbaru ofisu
Kazakh: kk Сопақ кеңсе
Korean: ko 오벌 오피스
Persian:
Iranian Persian: fa-ira دَفْتَرِ بِیضی
Polish: pl Gabinet Owalny m
Portuguese: pt Salão Oval m Brazil, pt Sala Oval f Portugal
Romanian: ro Biroul Oval n definite
Russian: ru ова́льный кабине́т m also capitalised
Spanish: es Despacho Oval m, es Oficina Oval f
Swahili: sw Ofisi ya Oval
Tajik: tg офиси байзавӣ
Turkish: tr Oval Ofis
Ukrainian: uk ова́льний кабіне́т m
en Rooms US politics