sylph

sylph (s

lf)

1. A slim, graceful woman or girl.

2. In the occult philosophy of Paracelsus, a being that has air as its element.

[New Latin sylpha, perhaps blend of Latin sylvestris, of the forest (from silva, sylva, forest) and Latin nympha, nymph; see nymph.]

sylph [sɪlf]

1. a slender graceful girl or young woman

2. (Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) any of a class of imaginary beings assumed to inhabit the air

[from New Latin sylphus, probably coined from Latin silva wood + Greek numphē nymph]

sylphlike less commonly, sylphic, sylphish, sylphy adj

ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms

Noun	1.	sylph - a slender graceful young woman adult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"
	2.	sylph - an elemental being believed to inhabit the air imaginary being, imaginary creature - a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction

Translations

sylph [sɪlf] N (Myth) (male) → silfo m, sílfide f; (female) → sílfide f

sylph

n (Myth) → Sylphe mf; (fig: = girl) → Sylphide f, → Nymphe f

sylph [sɪlf] n → silfo

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Ariel imaginary being imaginary creature naiad sprite supernatural sylphid Sylphine Sylphish sylphlike	He tells how her guardian sylph brings a morning dream to warn her of coming danger. English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context Then, indeed, does the tuckered sylph come out in fairy form and proceed with joy under cousinly escort to the exhausted old assembly-room, fourteen heavy miles off, which, during three hundred and sixty-four days and nights of every ordinary year, is a kind of antipodean lumber- room full of old chairs and tables upside down. Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context Suddenly a door opened, the draught caught up the little Dancer, and off she flew like a sylph to the Tin-soldier in the stove, burst into flames--and that was the end of her The Yellow Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew View in context	syllabify syllabise syllabism Syllabist syllabize syllable syllable structure syllabled syllabogram syllabography syllabub syllabus syllepsis Sylleptic Syllidian Sylloge syllogise syllogiser syllogism syllogist syllogistic Syllogistically Syllogization syllogize Syllogizer sylph sylphid Sylphine Sylphish sylphlike sylva sylvan sylvanite Sylvanium sylvans Sylvanus Sylvate sylvatic Sylvester II Sylvestrian Sylvia Sylvia communis Sylvia curruca Sylvia Plath Sylvian aqueduct Sylvian fissure Sylvic Sylvicoline sylviculture Sylviculturist Sylviidae	Syllogisms Syllogisms Syllogisms syllogist syllogistic syllogistic syllogistic Syllogistic reasoning Syllogistic reasoning Syllogistic reasoning syllogistical syllogistical syllogistically syllogistically syllogistically syllogization syllogize syllogized syllogizer syllogizes syllogizing Syllogos Ellinon Symboylon Epagelmatikou Prosanatolismou SYLM Sylmar Hang Gliding Association Sylmar High School Sylonidae Sylopidae Sylow subgroup Sylow theorems SYLP sylph Sylphes Sylphes sylphid sylphid Sylphine Sylphish sylphlike Sylphon Sylphs Sylphs SYLS SYLSB Sylt sylva sylva Sylva, Carmen sylvae Sylvain Dornon Sylvain Maréchal Sylvalismis sylvan sylvan sylvan Sylvan Grove Public Library Sylvan Highlands Neighborhood Association Sylvan Lake Sylvan Lake Baha'i Centre Sylvan Lake State Park Sylvaner Sylvania

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Ariel
imaginary being
imaginary creature
naiad
sprite
supernatural
sylphid
Sylphine
Sylphish
sylphlike

He tells how her guardian sylph brings a morning dream to warn her of coming danger.

English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context

Then, indeed, does the tuckered sylph come out in fairy form and proceed with joy under cousinly escort to the exhausted old assembly-room, fourteen heavy miles off, which, during three hundred and sixty-four days and nights of every ordinary year, is a kind of antipodean lumber- room full of old chairs and tables upside down.

Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context

Suddenly a door opened, the draught caught up the little Dancer, and off she flew like a sylph to the Tin-soldier in the stove, burst into flames--and that was the end of her

The Yellow Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew View in context

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