Dictionary Entry
nymph
nymph is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 16 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters.
- 2noun
A lovely young girl; a maiden; a damsel.
- 3noun
The pupa of an insect; a chrysalis.
- 4noun
Any one of a subfamily (Najades) of butterflies including the purples, the fritillaries, the peacock butterfly, etc.; -- called also naiad.
- 5plural
of Nympha
- 6noun
a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly)
- 7noun
(classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden
"the ancient Greeks believed that nymphs inhabited forests and bodies of water"
- 8noun
a voluptuously beautiful young woman
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