Definitions for oases

oases o·a·sis

Spelling: [oh-ey-sis]
IPA: /oʊˈeɪ sɪs/

Oases is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in oases (aeoss).

Definitions for oases

noun

  1. a small fertile or green area in a desert region, usually having a spring or well.
  2. something serving as a refuge, relief, or pleasant change from what is usual, annoying, difficult, etc.:

Origin of oases

1605-15; Late Latin Greek óasis (Herodotus) Egyptian wḥʾt oasis, oasis region

Examples for oases

Some Arabs are settled in towns or oases, and others lead a wandering life.

I speak of these things, for they were the oases in army life and drudgery.

There were exceptions, like oases in the desert of ignorance and vice.

Like oases are these Freshmen to the Student-Body collector.

There are oases in it; some of them large, and settled by civilised men.

They are also oases, where Jews and Arabs of all kinds interact as equals.

There are periods in our history which form the oases in the desert of life.

But like American speakeasies during prohibition in the USA, these places are oases in a desert of official prudery.

The one is a desert indeed; the other, as we have said, is a desert with oases.

One of the oases we visited was the Lucus Ascræus, in the northern hemisphere.

Word Value for oases
Scrable

5

Words with friends

5

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