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

1. noun. A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters.
2. noun. A lovely young girl; a maiden; a damsel.
3. noun. The pupa of an insect; a chrysalis.
4. noun. Any one of a subfamily (Najades) of butterflies including the purples, the fritillaries, the peacock butterfly, etc.; -- called also naiad.
5. plural. of Nympha
6. noun. a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly)
7. noun. (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden

   "the ancient Greeks believed that nymphs inhabited forests and bodies of water"

8. noun. a voluptuously beautiful young woman

   Synonyms: houri

Synonyms

houri

Common word forms

nymphs, nymphal, nymphed, nymphly, nymphing

Words from these letters

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