Definition of Oceanides

1. oceanid [n] - See also: oceanid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oceanides

oceanaria
oceanarium
oceanariums
oceanaut
oceanauts
oceanfront
oceanfronts
oceangoing
oceanic abyss
oceanic bird
oceanic bonito
oceanic trench
oceanic trenches
oceanic whitetip shark
oceanic whitetip sharks
oceanides (current term)
oceanids
oceanless
oceanlike
oceanliner
oceanliners
oceanodromous
oceanographer
oceanographers
oceanographic
oceanographical
oceanographically
oceanographies
oceanographist
oceanographists

Literary usage of Oceanides

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Northern Germany, as Far as the Bavarian and Austrian Frontiers: As Far as by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1900)
"M. Krute, Messenger bringing the news of ttie victory of Marathon (bronze); -34. E. Müller, Prometheus and the oceanides ; Römer, 69. ..."

2. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction, Classical Mediæval, Legendary: Classical by William Shepard Walsh (1915)
"oceanides, the daughters of Oceanus, who were nymphs of the Ocean, and Nereides, daughters of Oberen, in mediaeval myth, the king of the Fairies. ..."

3. A Classical Dictionary: Containing Brief and Accurate Accounts of the Proper edited by Edward Sylvester Ellis (1900)
"Of the sea nymphs some were called oceanides, Nereides. Naiades, etc. ... He married Tethys, the oceanides being their children. Octa'via. ..."

4. Pictures of Travel by Heinrich Heine, Charles Godfrey Leland, Charles Harvey Genung (1898)
"THE SONG OF THE oceanides COLDER the twilight falls on the Ocean, And lonely, with his own lonelier spirit, Yon sits a man on the barren strand, ..."

5. Heinrich Heine's Pictures of Travel by Heinrich Heine, Charles Godfrey Leland (1863)
"THE SONG OF THE oceanides. COLDER the twilight falls on the Ocean, And lonely, with his own lonelier spirit, Yon sits a man on the barren strand, ..."

6. Bibliotheca Classica, Or, a Dictionary of All the Principal Names and Terms by John Lemprière, Lorenzo L. Da Ponte, John David Ogilby (1838)
"METIS, one of the oceanides. She was Jupiter's first wife, celebrated for her great prudence and sagacity above the rest of the gods. ..."

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