o'er

¹ American

[awr, ohr] / ɔr, oʊr /

preposition

Literary.

contraction of over.

OER ² American

open education(al) resource(s).

o'er British

/ əʊə, ɔː /

preposition

a poetic contraction of over

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Now with the warm earth o’er thy breast, O wisest of thy kind and best, Forever mayst thou softly rest, In pace, Peter!

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2023

All we go down to the dust; and, weeping o'er the grave we make our song:

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2022

Hamlet did not want his capacity for action to be “sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2022

All we go down to the dust; and, weeping, o’er the grave,

From Washington Times • Apr. 16, 2021

The cap’n dragged Syl back to his seat, then o’er to one of the train’s windows.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis

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