Crossword clues for oread
oread
- Echo was one
- Nymph of the mountains
- Nymph of the hills
- Mount Ida maiden
- Grotto nymph
- Nymph on Ida
- Companion of Pan
- Nymph on Mt. Ida
- Mountain-dweller's mineral promotion
- Echo, say
- Nymph of myth
- Nymph of Greek myth
- Mythical mountain nymph
- Nymph who was a companion of Artemis
- Nymph associated with Artemis
- Echo or Cyllene, e.g
- Companion to Artemis
- Naiad's cousin
- Mountain-dwelling nymph
- Mountain nymph associated with Artemis
- Follower of Artemis
- Daphne or Echo
- Greek nymph
- Mythological figure
- Mountain nymph of Greek mythology
- Companion of Artemis
- Nymph in Greek myth
- Echo, for one
- Mythical nymph
- Echo, e.g., in Greek myth
- Hunting attendant of Artemis
- Nymph of Mount Ida, e.g.
- (Greek mythology) one of the mountain nymphs
- Hellenic haunter of hills
- Greek mountain nymph
- One of Artemis's companions
- Pelion maiden
- Mt. Ida maiden of myths
- Attendant on Artemis
- Hill nymph
- One of Pan's companions
- Hill deity
- Olympian nymph
- A companion of Pan
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oread \O"re*ad\, n. [L. Oreas, -adis, Gr. 'Oreia`s, -a`dos, fr. 'o`ros mountain: cf. F. or['e]ade.] (Class. Myth.) One of the nymphs of mountains and grottoes.
Like a wood nymph light,
Oread or Dryad.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Latin Oreas (genitive Oreadis), from Greek Oreias "mountain nymph," from oros "mountain," perhaps from PIE root *ergh- "to mount" (see orchestra).
Wiktionary
n. (context Greek mythology English) A mountain nymph. An anthropomorphic appearance of the spirit of a mountain.
Wikipedia
In Greek mythology, an Oread or (, Oreades, from ὄρος, "mountain") or Orestiad or (Όρεστιάδες, Orestiades) was a type of nymph that lived in mountains, valleys, and ravines. They differ from each other according to their dwelling: the Idaeae were from Mount Ida, Peliades from Mount Pelion, etc. They were associated with Artemis, since the goddess, when she went out hunting, preferred mountains and rocky precipices.
" Oread" is a poem by Hilda Doolittle. Doolittle published her first poems under the name H. D. Imagiste. (The 'e' in "Imagiste was meant to suggest the French poets to whom Imagism owed such a debt. She later dropped the artificial surname and wrote simply under the name 'H. D.')
"Oread", one of her earliest and best-known poems, which was first published in the 1915 anthology, serves to illustrate this early style well. The title Oread was added after the poem was first written, to suggest that a Nymph was ordering up the sea.
An Oread is a type of nymph in Greek mythology.
Oread may also refer to:
- Oread (poem), a poem by Hilda Doolittle
- Lake Orestiada, a lake in Greece
- Orestiada, a city in Greece
-
, a creature in Dungeons & Dragons
Usage examples of "oread".
Then turning towards the rocks he spread open his arms and invoked the Nymphs, the mountains, the rivers, the lakes, the fields, the springs, the woods, and the sea-shore, by the several appellations of Oreads, and Naiads, and Limniads, and Limoniads, and Ephydriads, and Dryads and Hamadryads.
Should borrow body and form and hue And tower in torrents of floral flame, The crimson bougainvillea grew, What starlit brow uplifted to the same Majestic regress of the summering sky, What ultimate thing -- hushed, holy, throned as high Above the currents that tarnish and profane As silver summits are whose pure repose No curious eyes disclose Nor any footfalls stain, But round their beauty on azure evenings Only the oreads go on gauzy wings, Only the oreads troop with dance and song And airy beings in rainbow mists who throng Out of those wonderful worlds that lie afar Betwixt the outmost cloud and the nearest star.
Along Jayhawk Boulevard on top of Mount Oread, overlooking the Kaw Valley on the north and the Wakarusa on the south, the university buildings stood dark and deserted.
Only the Oreads still in a dazzling drift pursued their round: quiet maiden mouths, beautiful breasts, slender lithe limbs, hand joined to delicate hand, parting and closing and parting again, in rhythms of unstaled variety.
Because he said the Bluebellies have started sending fifty cavalrymen out between five and six every morning to scout the plain between here and Mount Oread.
The dryads and dryfauns live and play in trees, the oreads and orefauns play in the mountains, and we naiads and naifauns play in the water or on the beach.
Soon they came to a region on the slope of the adjacent mountain where the orefauns and oreads were playing chase.
All the breeds but nerefauns and nereids live here: dryads and dryfauns in the forest, oreads and orefauns in the caves and on the mountainside, and naiads and naifauns in the lake.