Thesaurus: nymph

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1. n. A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters.
2. n. A lovely young girl; a maiden; a damsel.
3. n. The pupa of an insect; a chrysalis.
4. n. Any one of a subfamily (Najades) of butterflies including the purples, the fritillaries, the peacock butterfly, etc.; -- called also naiad.
5. n. (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden
6. n. a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly)
7. n. a voluptuously beautiful young woman
8. 1. (Class. Myth.) A class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/goddess">goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters. Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas Milton. 2. Hence: A lovely young girl; a maiden; a damsel. Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered. Shak. 3. (Zoöl.) The pupa of an insect; a chrysalis. 4. (Zoöl.) Any one of a subfamily (Najades) of butterflies including the purples, the fritillaries, the peacock butterfly, etc.; -- called also naiad.
9. A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters.Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the headof your loved Lycidas Milton.
10. n:100 n. (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden n. a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly) n. a voluptuously beautiful young woman