Oval Office

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

the Oval Office

1. The official office of the President of the United States, located in the West Wing of the White House.

   Synonym: Oval

   • 1998, George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed‎^[1], New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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.

Translations

office of the President of the United States

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 橢圓形辦公室／椭圆形办公室 (zh) (tuǒyuánxíng bàngōngshì)

• Czech: Oválná pracovna f
• Finnish: Oval Office
• French: Bureau ovale (fr) m
• German: Oval Office (de) n
• Japanese: 大統領執務室 (だいとうりょうしつむしつ, daitōryō shitsumushitsu) (presidential office), オーバルオフィス (ōbaru ofisu)
• Kazakh: Сопақ кеңсе (Sopaq keñse)
• Korean: 오벌 오피스 (obeol opiseu)
• Portuguese: Salão Oval m (Brazil), Sala Oval f (Portugal)
• Russian: ова́льный кабине́т m (oválʹnyj kabinét) (also capitalised)