Oasis vs Polder - What's the difference?
oasis | polder |
A spring of fresh water, surrounded by a fertile region of vegetation, in a desert.
*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
, chapter=7, title= A quiet, peaceful place or situation separated from surrounding noise or bustle.
(geography) An area of ground reclaimed from a sea or lake by means of dikes.
*1999 , (Philipp Blom), translating Geert Mak, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City , Vintage 2001, p. 43:
*:The patron saint of the Oude Kerk, Saint Nicolaas, the ‘water saint’, was also very popular, as he protected the sailors and those living on the polders from the dangers of the sea.
As a proper noun oasis
is the great oasis of thebes, a string of oases in the (libyan desert) where the roman empire would send its criminals, the location of the modern (dakhla oasis) and (kharga oasis).As a noun polder is
(geography) an area of ground reclaimed from a sea or lake by means of dikes.oasis
English
(wikipedia oasis)Noun
(oases)The Lonely Pyramid, passage=It was the Lost Oasis', the '''Oasis''' of the vision in the sand. […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood. […] Yes, the quest was ended, the Lost ' Oasis was the Found!}}