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mountain-nymphs

mountain-nymphs is the plural of mountain-nymph.

Meaning of mountain-nymph

Noun

mountain-nymph (plural mountain-nymphs)

  1. (Greek) A nymph residing in the mountains; an oread.
    • These are represented as mountain-nymphs, young and beautiful, clad in white, with long flying hair.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 318

Questions about mountain-nymphs

What is mountain-nymphs the plural of?
Mountain-nymphs is the plural of mountain-nymph.

Words near mountain-nymphs in the dictionary

  1. mountain-loads
  2. mountain-lover
  3. mountain-lovers
  4. mountain-mint
  5. mountain-nymph
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  7. Mountainair
  8. mountainbike
  9. mountainbiker
  10. mountainbikers
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