Thesaurus results for NYMPH

nymph

noun

ˈnim(p)f

as in mermaid

a mythical goddess represented as a young girl and said to live outdoors she bought the book of fairy tales for the beautiful engravings of nymphs and fairies featured between the stories

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as in larva

a young wingless often wormlike form (as a grub or caterpillar) that hatches from the egg of many insects mayfly nymphs

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as in girl

a female person who has not yet reached adulthood the neighborhood nymphs were gathered at the local pizza parlor

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Recent Examples on the Web The news comes just about two weeks after the San Diego Comic-Con panel where it was announced that Daniel Diemer was cast as Tyson the Cyclops, who is Percy’s (Walker Scobell) paternal half brother, the son of Poseidon and a nymph. —

Katie Campione, Deadline, 10 Aug. 2024 The eggs will hatch after six to 10 weeks and the cicada nymphs will burrow themselves into the ground, attaching to the tree's roots. —

Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 4 June 2024 One of the nymph’s missing fingers also was replaced, Brown said. —

Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2024 The figures of the mermaid, the nymph, and the water queen all connote a kind of eroticized, passive to-be-looked-at-ness, to borrow the film theorist Laura Mulvey’s term. —

Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 21 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for nymph

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