Oberon

//ˈoʊbərɒn// name

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    (Middle Ages) the king of the fairies and husband of Titania in medieval folklore wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A fictional character in medieval and Renaissance literature, the king of the fairies, appearing for example in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream.
  2. 2
    The outermost major moon of Uranus.
  3. 3
    A town and local government area in New South Wales, Australia.
  4. 4
    A minor city in Benson County, North Dakota, United States.
  5. 5
    A general purpose programming language and operating system descended from Modula-2, developed in the late 1980s.

Synonyms

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arielbansheebefindbrowniecluricaunecorrigan

Example

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"Now be a good boy or I'm going to send you to Oberon."

Etymology

Earlier Auberon, from Old French Alberon, partial loan translation from Middle High German Alberich, literally ‘elf king, fairy king’, from alp + -rich << Proto-Germanic *rīks.

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new south walesnorth dakota

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