Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a group of mountain nymphs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Greek myth, a mountain nymph.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Class. Myth.) One of the nymphs of mountains and grottoes.
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- noun Greek mythology A mountain
nymph . Ananthropomorphic appearance of the spirit of a mountain.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Greek mythology) one of the mountain nymphs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I care though. just so thats out in the open. .well not so open. nobodys oging to oread this and thast prolly for the best.
katebell Diary Entry katebell 2004
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Thereafter Jurgen came upon a considerable commotion in the bushes, where a satyr was at play with an oread.
Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918
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We always remembered the picture she made there; and in later days when we read Tennyson's poems at a college desk, we knew exactly how an oread, peering through the green leaves on some haunted knoll of many fountained
The Story Girl Lucy Maud 1911
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We always remembered the picture she made there; and in later days when we read Tennyson's poems at a college desk, we knew exactly how an oread, peering through the green leaves on some haunted knoll of many fountained
The Story Girl 1908
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As for him, he was not thinking of the mountain girl, the oread who, in the days when he was younger and his heart beat high, had caught his light fancy, tempting him from his comrades back to the cabin in the valley, to look again into her eyes and touch the brown waves of her hair.
Audrey Mary Johnston 1903
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He paused to survey the oread vision of Lady Kitty.
The Marriage of William Ashe Humphry Ward 1885
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She was a child of the whole world, as the naiad is the child of the river, and the oread of the mountain.
There & Back George MacDonald 1864
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Was she salamander or sylph, naiad or undine, oread or dryad?
There & Back George MacDonald 1864
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Tennyson calls “Maud” an _oread_, because her hall and garden were on a hill.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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Not for a moment could it be fancied the oread step which belonged to that daughter of the hills -- my wife, my Agnes; no, it was the dull massy tread of a man: and immediately there came a loud blow upon the door, and in the next moment, the bell having been found, a furious peal of ringing.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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