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# oberon

«oberon» in Mova's school dictionary: **The king of the fairies in old European folklore and stories** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (Oberon) (a name)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (a name) The king of the fairies in old European folklore and stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oberon/#m1)

2) (science) The second-largest moon of the planet Uranus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oberon/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A name: Oberon appears in legends and in famous plays as the fairy king, husband of Titania. In astronomy, Oberon is a cold, icy, cratered moon of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel in 1787.

### examples

- Oberon is the king of the fairies in the old stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oberon/#x1)
- Oberon and Titania quarrelled over a magic flower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oberon/#x2)
- Oberon is one of the moons of Uranus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oberon/#x3)
- William Herschel discovered Oberon with his telescope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oberon/#x4)
- The moon Oberon is covered in craters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oberon/#x5)

### note

A proper name, always with a capital O. Pronounced "OH-buh-ron". Uranus's moons are named after characters from English literature, like Titania and Miranda.

### In the corpora

- [Uranus's moons are named after characters from Shakespeare and Alexander Pope, such as Miranda, Titania and Oberon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/14-uranus-and-neptune/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «oberon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oberon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.