o'er

¹ American  

[awr, ohr] / ɔr, oʊr /

preposition

Literary.

1. contraction of over.

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OER ² American  

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

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o'er British  

/ əʊə, ɔː /

preposition

1. a poetic contraction of over

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Example Sentences

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

So we rotated guard duty: All through the night o’er the Ram parts we watched.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2022

“Together they sleep on the sloping green Where the flowers bloom ‘neath the sunlight beam And the soft breezes sigh through the willow tree That nods o’er the grave in the sunny Shawnee.”

From Washington Times • Feb. 17, 2019

As John Milton, that other blind survivor, once noted: Though "Thousands at his bidding speed / And post o'er Land and Ocean without rest: / They also serve who only stand and wait."

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2016

One of the other men said, “Ol’ Jerry here was telling us ’bout why he give up being a cap’n on a ship and switched o’er to working the rails.”

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