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Meanings of nymph in English
Usage of nymph in English
1
Back came the imitation, shot out of the wood by the nymph:
2
I suppose because he compared you to a nymph in the fable.
3
We do not succeed in finding one single nymph of the Halictus.
4
Egeria is the only nymph of a fountain mentioned in Roman mythology.
5
I took a moment to tell her about Sky the wood nymph.
6
Then the nymph who had compassion for him called to the others.
7
At the theatre a duchess; here a nereid, a nymph, a fairy.
8
The nymph was not quite as nimble as she once had been.
9
Old Greek mythology would certainly make her a nymph of the hills.
10
Only the statue of the wood nymph stands in the living room.
11
Yet the nymph herself did not submit to this purification without repining.
12
Opening his eyes, he studied her approach, graceful as a wood nymph.
13
Lance-straight and slender, his wood nymph waded knee deep through the ferns.
14
Rhoecus boldly asked her love, and the nymph yielded to his desire.
15
So it became common to call any beautiful young woman a nymph.
16
OENONE, nymph, married by Paris in his youth, and abandoned for Helen
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Nymph across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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