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
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