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oasis
Part of speech: NounA fertile place in a barren desert.
Usage examples "oasis":- Rais heard of the affair, and said as he was a foreign Arab he should leave the oasis. - "Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846", James Richardson.
- In another way, it was the solitary oasis of human picturesqueness in a continent of vacancy. - "Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest", J. Frank Dobie.
- " Let us buy our oasis," he said abruptly. - "The Garden Of Allah", Robert Hichens.