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nymph

UK/ˈnɪmf/

nymph noun: any female nature spirit associated with water, forests, grottos, wind, etc.

nymph: any female nature spirit associated with water, forests, grottos, wind, etc
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Noun

nymph (plural nymphs or nymphae)

  1. (Greek, Roman) Any female nature spirit associated with water, forests, grottos, wind, etc.
  2. A young girl, especially one who is attractive, beautiful or graceful.
  3. The larva of certain insects.
    Synonyms:
    instar, naiad
  4. Any of various butterflies of the family Nymphalidae.

Verb

nymph (third-person singular simple present nymphs, present participle nymphing, simple past and past participle nymphed)

  1. To fish using a nymph larva as bait.
    • Kuster meanwhile nymphed the middle of the Snag. When I joined him, I threw my streamer between the main channel's flow and the skinnier side-channel flow, […]2019, James W. White, Fly-fishing the Arctic Circle to Tasmania, page 253

nymph meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

nymph in Tamil

இளம்பூச்சி, முட்டைப் புழுவின் கூடு, அணங்குப்புழு, இளம்புழுப்பருவம், அரமகளிர், மோகினி

nymph in Urdu

حور, جل پری, خوبصورت دوشیزہ, پہاڑ پری, پیڑ پری, پرشہوت عورت

nymph in Bengali

নদী, বৃক্ষ, পর্বত ইত্যাদি বাসিনী উপদেবী, পরী, রূপসী নারী, সোনালি প্রজাপতির শুঁয়াপোকা

nymph in Telugu

nymph or fairy, attendant on Durga, the good goddess
యోగిని yōgini
More languagesFewer languages
nymph in Malayalam
ജലകന്യക, മത്സ്യകന്യക, സുന്ദരിയായ സ്ത്രീ
nymph in Kannada
ಸೌಂದರ್ಯವತಿ, ಲಾವಣ್ಯವತಿ, ಅಪ್ಸರೆ, ಪುರಾಣದ ಸ್ತ್ರೀ
nymph in Tagalog
nimpa
nymph in Thai
นางไม้ naang máai

Examples of nymph in a sentence

  • They are partly associated with the Querquetulanae, the Roman nymphs of the oak grove.
  • Blackenwood grew enraged and shouted, “I am not a common tree nymph”.
  • I find flavilinea nymphs almost everywhere I fish in the Snake River corridor.

All 29 example sentences with nymph

Synonyms of nymph

All synonyms of nymph

Forms of nymph

Noun
pluralnymphs
pluralnymphae
alternative form (archaic, rare)nymphe
Verb
third-person singular presentnymphs
present participlenymphing
past participlenymphed
pastnymphed

Plural of nymph: nymphs or nymphae

Origin of nymph

From Middle English nimphe, from Old English nymphē and Old French nimphe, both from Latin nympha (“nymph, bride”), from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride, young maiden”). Doublet of nympha.

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Questions about nymph

What does nymph mean?
Nymph means any female nature spirit associated with water, forests, grottos, wind, etc.
What is nymph in Tamil?
Nymph in Tamil is இளம்பூச்சி, முட்டைப் புழுவின் கூடு, அணங்குப்புழு. See Nymph meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is nymph?
Nymph can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce nymph?
Nymph is pronounced /ˈnɪmf/ (UK).
What is the plural of nymph?
The plural of nymph is nymphs.

Words near nymph in the dictionary

  1. Nyman
  2. Nymboida
  3. Nymeyer
  4. nymotype
  5. nymotypical
  6. nymph
  7. nymph of darkness
  8. nymph of the pavement
  9. nymph of the pavé
  10. nympha
  11. nymphae

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nymph (page history and authors); nymph (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nymph (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nymph (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); యోగిని (Telugu) (page history and authors); nymph (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nymph (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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