Definition of "oread" [o•re•ad]

• Greek Mythology Any of a group of mountain nymphs. (noun)

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• "I care though. just so thats out in the open. .well not so open. nobodys oging to oread this and thast prolly for the best."
• "Thereafter Jurgen came upon a considerable commotion in the bushes, where a satyr was at play with an oread."
• "We always remembered the picture she made there; and in later days when we read Tennyson's poems at a college desk, we knew exactly how an oread, peering through the green leaves on some haunted knoll of many fountained"