O'er

//ɔɹ// adv, prep

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Contraction of over abbreviation, alt-of, contraction, literary, not-comparable
Adverb
  1. 1
    throughout a period of time wordnet
Preposition
  1. 1
    Contraction of over abbreviation, alt-of, contraction, literary

    "We see him now — the old slouched hat cocked o’er his eye askew, The shrewd, dry smile, the speech so pat, so calm, so blunt, so true."

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"Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?"

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