Definitions for oreads

oreads o·re·ad

Spelling: [awr-ee-ad, ohr‐]
IPA: /ˈɔr iˌæd, ˈoʊr‐/

Oreads is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in oreads (adeors).

Definitions for oreads

noun

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

Origin of oreads

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 patronym

Examples for oreads

The oread's body was sanguine brown, only her breast, which I saw half-revealed through a slit in her smock, was snowy white.

They had first met in 1830, when she, a girl of seventeen, seemed to him like “a Dryad or an oread wandering here.”

Also many large elms grow along the upper slopes, especially along the outcrops of the two main strata of the oread Limestone.

Was she salamander or sylph, naiad or undine, oread or dryad?

All your woods and dales are sad,— You have lost your oread.

There's a light passed from you, There's a joy outcast from you,— You have lost your oread.

I never ventured to read them to my oread or fellow students.

From Princess she had changed to oread, and they did not know her in this new mood.

Here, too, the oread dwellers of the hills and dryads and sylvans and water-nymphs seem possible.

She was a child of the whole world, as the naiad is the child of the river, and the oread of the mountain.

Word Value for oreads
Scrable

6

Words with friends

6

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