Definitions for oasis

oasis o·a·sis

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

Oasis 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 36 anagrams from letters in oasis (aioss).

Definitions for oasis

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 oasis

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

Examples for oasis

My father's tribe live in the oasis ten miles east of the old lake.

They were lonely servants providing an oasis in a long, desert path.

It fell like an oasis over the solemn company walking there.

This person also cast doubt on whether the grapevines at oasis would have survived a long period of neglect.

It was an oasis of natural splendor in the heart of a calm sea of green grass.

The pop-punk of Green Day, the Britpop of oasis, the alternative arena rock of Weezer.

The oasis was of small extent, extending but two hundred yards across.

Voting was disrupted also at oasis towns in southeastern Libya, including Jalo and Ojla.

The thirsty traveler in the desert places had come to the oasis of her dreams.

Even so, in the turbulent Middle East of the Arab Spring Lebanon has been an oasis of calm and relative affluence.

Word Value for oasis
Scrable

5

Words with friends

5

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