oread

American  

[awr-ee-ad, ohr‑] / ˈɔr iˌæd, ˈoʊr‑ /

noun

1. Classical Mythology. any of a group of nymphs who were the companions of Artemis.

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oread British  

/ ˈɔːrɪˌæd /

noun

1. Greek myth a mountain nymph

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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

Through the water-eye of night, Midway between eve and dawn, See the chase, the rout, the flight In deep forest; oread, faun, Goat-foot, antlers laid on neck; Ravenous all the line for speed.

From Poems — Volume 3 by Meredith, George

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 Cawein, Madison Julius

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 MacDonald, George

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 Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

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 Manning, Frederic