o'er

¹

[awr, ohr]

preposition

Literary.

1. contraction of over.

OER

²

1. open education(al) resource(s).

o'er

/ əʊə, ɔː /

preposition

1. a poetic contraction of over

Example Sentences

All we go down to the dust; and, weeping o'er the grave we make our song:

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Are sought in vain, and o'er each mouldering tower,

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“Oh, I see,” he cried, “‘From o'er the threshold’ means that we must stand on the wall directly above the gatehouse.”

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It was like I was watching some other boy ’stead of me picking Pap up and going o'er to Spangler with my pa in his arms.

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The singer stopped singing during the line "o'er the ramparts we watched," Time magazine reported, to peek at his hand to see what the next words were.

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