o'er

¹

[ awr, ohr ]

preposition

, Literary.

1. contraction of over.

OER

²

1. open education(al) resource(s) ( def ).

o'er

/ əʊə; ɔː /

preposition

1. a poetic contraction of over

Example Sentences

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

From BBC

Darkness the curtain drops o'er life's dull scene:

From Literature

“Oh, I see,” he cried, “‘From o'er the threshold’ means that we must stand on the wall directly above the gatehouse.”

From Literature

It was like I was watching some other boy ’stead of me picking Pap up and going o'er to Spangler with my pa in his arms.

From Literature

The singer stopped singing during the line "o'er the ramparts we watched," Time magazine reported, to peek at his hand to see what the next words were.

From Fox News