oasis
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- noun
- /oʊˈeɪsɪs/
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oasis
- After days of wandering in the scorching sand, they finally found an oasis filled with palm trees and clear water.
- oasis of water
By escaping, she says, we carry the sand of the desert into the Oasis.
- By escaping, she says, we carry the sand of the desert into the Oasis.
- I mean, it was a really look, we were shooting in September on the in the last Oasis before the really true Sahara begins.
Examples
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I turned a barren desert into a lush oasis.
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Tozeur is another oasis in the region well worth a visit.
Academic text (2003) -
One evening he came to an oasis and stopped there for the night.
Fiction book (1994) -
This desert is gonna be an oasis within two years.
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Like an oasis in the middle of a desert.
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I need one day in the oasis.
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After a while, he saw an oasis and his heart began to beat rapidly.
Fiction book (1999) -
There's an oasis just there.
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At last, a tiny oasis of green in the barren wilderness.
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After several hours of enduring the 100-degree temperature of the midday sun, the oasis was a particularly welcome sight.
Academic text (1992)
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Etymology
The word oasis comes from an old Egyptian word wḥt meaning 'dwelling' or 'spring' that went into Greek and then English. So an oasis is a green spot with water and plants in the desert.