nymph (n mf)n.1. Greek & Roman Mythology Any of numerous minor deities represented as beautiful maidens inhabiting and sometimes personifying features of nature such as trees, waters, and mountains. 2. A girl, especially a beautiful one. 3. The larval form of certain insects, such as silverfish and grasshoppers, usually resembling the adult form but smaller and lacking fully developed wings. Also called nympha.
[Middle English nimphe, from Old French, from Latin nympha, from Greek numph .]
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nymph Noun
1. Myth a spirit of nature, represented as a beautiful young woman
2. the larva of certain insects, resembling the adult form
3. Chiefly poetic a beautiful young woman [Greek numphē]
nymph (n mf) The immature form of those insects that do not pass through a pupal stage. Nymphs usually resemble the adults, but are smaller, lack fully developed wings, and are sexually immature. Compare imagolarvapupa |
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| Noun | 1. | nymph - (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden; "the ancient Greeks believed that nymphs inhabited forests and bodies of water"classical mythology - the system of mythology of the Greeks and Romans together; much of Roman mythology (especially the gods) was borrowed from the Greeks Echo - (Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and pined away until only her voice remained Atlantides, Hesperides - (Greek mythology) group of 3 to 7 nymphs who guarded the golden apples that Gaea gave as a wedding gift to Hera Hyades - (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Pleiades; they nurtured the infant Dionysus and Zeus placed them among the stars as a reward Oread - (Greek mythology) one of the mountain nymphs Pleiades - (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Hyades; placed among the stars to save them from the pursuit of Orion Daphne - (Greek mythology) a nymph who was transformed into a laurel tree to escape the amorous Apollo Salmacis - nymph who merged with Hermaphroditus to form one body |
| 2. | nymph - a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly)larva - the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose |
| 3. | nymph - a voluptuously beautiful young womanadult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted" |
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Translationsnymph [nɪmf] n → nymphe f
nymphn nymph [nimf]a goddess or spirit of the rivers, trees etc.
nimfحورِيَّهнимфаnymfanymfedie Nympheνύμφη, νεράιδαninfanümfحورى؛ زن بسيار زيباnymfinympheנִימפָהअप्सराvodena vila, nimfanimfaperinÿmfa, dísninfa精霊님프, (강·숲·산에 사는) 여자 정령[]nimfanimfadewinimfnymfe, fenimfaninfanimfăнимфаnymfa(vodna) vilanimfanymfนางไม้peri, su/orman vb. perisi居於山林水澤中的仙女німфаحور، درياؤں و درختوں کي ديويnữ thần居于山林水泽中的仙女