Skip to content

oasis

/oʊˈeɪsɪs/noun3 syllables

Oasis means: a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary.

Synonyms for oasis3

noun, as in a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary

also used for oasis

island, refuge

Includes material from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What does oasis mean?2

noun

1

a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary

2

a fertile tract in a desert (where the water table approaches the surface)

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Oasis in a sentence

  • After wandering aimlessly through the desert for months, we discovered a solitary oasis.marcelostockle
  • Eventually, even a donkey will find its way to the oasis.AlanF_US
  • Your gift was like discovery of an oasis in the midst of a desert.unknown
  • We saw what looked like an oasis in the desert.CK
  • How many palm trees are there in this oasis?Amastan
  • The crater was a possible oasis in its distant past.Hybrid
  • Ziri looked across the desert and saw a distant oasis.Amastan
  • Can Algeria's desert be turned into a green oasis?Amastan

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of oasis

as a noun

plural
oases