oread
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of oread
< Latin Orēad- (stem of Orēas ) < Greek Oreiad- (stem of Oreiás ), noun use of oreiás of the mountains, equivalent to órei(os) of the mountains (derivative of óros mountain) + -as feminine patronymic suffix
Example Sentences
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You are white beneath the plum-blossoms, As an oread beneath the shadow Of flowering branches: immobile, Among things fugitive and frail.
From Eidola by Frederic Manning
Tennyson calls “Maud” an oread, because her hall and garden were on a hill.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Was she salamander or sylph, naiad or undine, oread or dryad?—But then she had such a head, and they were all rather silly!
From There & Back by George MacDonald
You may see the laurel's girth, Big of bloom, give fragrant birth To the oread whose hair, Musk and darkness, light and air, Fills the hush with wonder there.
From A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein
April now in morning clad Like a gleaming oread, With the south wind in her voice, Comes to bid the world rejoice.
From Later Poems by Bliss Carman
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