Results for oasis

Definitions of oasis:

part of speech: noun

A fertile spot in a sandy desert:- pl. OASES.

part of speech: noun

A fertile place in a barren desert.

Usage examples for oasis:

• " It may be in a desert, as you say," said Lavinia, gently, " but we mean at least to make it an oasis for our friends who are weary of the whirling of the pool." "People of the Whirlpool", Mabel Osgood Wright

• He might have been travelling through the desert for many days and she might have been the oasis the pool of living water and the palm. "The Lion's Share", E. Arnold Bennett

• The oasis was full of men. "The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918", F.L. Morrison

• To him, and still more to his master, the journey seemed endless, though in reality it was not more than two miles before they arrived at a little oasis of wheat and orchards growing round a vine- clad building of reddish stone, with a spire rising in the midst. "Two Penniless Princesses", Charlotte M. Yonge