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Definition of 'Nymph' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) nymph
any of a class of lesser deities in classical mythology, conceived of as beautiful young women inhabiting the sea, rivers, trees, or mountains.

2.  nymph
a beautiful or graceful young woman.

3.  nymph
the young of an insect that undergoes incomplete metamorphosis.

Etymology:  (1350–1400; ME nimphe < L nympha < Gk nýmphē bride, nymph)

Definition of 'Nymph' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) 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"

2. (noun) nymph
a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly)

3. (noun) nymph, houri
a voluptuously beautiful young woman


Definition of 'Nymph' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Nymph
a goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters

2. (noun) Nymph
a lovely young girl; a maiden; a damsel

3. (noun) Nymph
the pupa of an insect; a chrysalis

4. (noun) Nymph
any one of a subfamily (Najades) of butterflies including the purples, the fritillaries, the peacock butterfly, etc.; -- called also naiad


Definition of 'Nymph' U.S. National Library of Medicine 

1.  Nymph
The immature stage in the life cycle of those orders of insects characterized by gradual metamorphosis, in which the young resemble the imago in general form of body, including compound eyes and external wings; also the 8-legged stage of mites and ticks that follows the first moult.


Translation of 'Nymph' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a goddess or spirit of the rivers, trees etc.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: nimf Arabic flag Arabic: حورِيَّه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: нимфа
Brazilian flag Brazilian: ninfa Czech flag Czech: nymfa German flag German: die Nymphe
Danish flag Danish: nymfe Greek flag Greek: νύμφη, νεράιδα Spanish flag Spanish: ninfa
Estonian flag Estonian: nümf Farsi flag Farsi: حورى؛ زن بسيار زيبا Finnish flag Finnish: nymfi
French flag French: nymphe Hebrew flag Hebrew: נִימפָה Hindi flag Hindi: अप्सरा
Croatian flag Croatian: vodena vila, nimfa Hungarian flag Hungarian: nimfa Indonesian flag Indonesian: peri
Icelandic flag Icelandic: nÿmfa, dís Italian flag Italian: ninfa Japanese flag Japanese: 精霊
Korean flag Korean: 님프: 바다, 산, 강, 목장 등에 사는 아름 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: nimfa Latvian flag Latvian: nimfa
Malay flag Malay: dewi Dutch flag Dutch: nimf Norwegian flag Norwegian: nymfe, fe
Polish flag Polish: nimfa Persian flag Persian: ،منظره دلنيشين حورى؛ زن ب Pashto flag Pashto: ډيرزړه ښكونكى،ښكلى
Portuguese flag Portuguese: ninfa Romanian flag Romanian: nimfă Russian flag Russian: нимфа
Slovak flag Slovak: nymfa Slovenian flag Slovenian: (vodna) vila Serbian flag Serbian: nimfa
Swedish flag Swedish: nymf Thai flag Thai: นางไม้ Turkish flag Turkish: peri, su/orman vb. perisi
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 居於山林水澤中的仙女 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: німфа Urdu flag Urdu: حور، درياؤں و درختوں کي د
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: nữ thần Chinese flag Chinese: 居于山林水泽中的仙女

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