Every night before I go to bed, I look out of my window and wonder if the dryad is really sitting here, combing her locks with the spring for a mirror. Sometimes I look for her footprints in the dew in the morning.
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Dryad
//ˈdɹaɪəd//
Synonyms for "dryad" (7 found)
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Related words (3)
Noun(2 words)
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14 entriesTranslations
33 translations across 29 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- driade noun (female tree spirit)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- Δρυάς noun (female tree spirit)
Belarusian
1 entries- дрыяда noun (female tree spirit)
Bulgarian
1 entries- дриада noun (female tree spirit)
Catalan
1 entries- dríada noun (female tree spirit)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 樹精 /树精 noun (female tree spirit)
Czech
1 entries- dryáda noun (female tree spirit)
Dutch
1 entries- dryade noun (female tree spirit)
Esperanto
1 entries- driado noun (female tree spirit)
Finnish
1 entries- dryadi noun (female tree spirit)
French
1 entries- dryade noun (female tree spirit)
German
1 entries- Dryade noun (female tree spirit)
Greek
1 entries- δρυάς noun (female tree spirit)
Hungarian
1 entries- driád noun (female tree spirit)
Ido
1 entries- driado noun (female tree spirit)
Italian
1 entries- driade noun (female tree spirit)
Japanese
1 entries- ドリュアス noun (female tree spirit)
Latvian
1 entries- driāda noun (female tree spirit)
Lithuanian
1 entries- driadė noun (female tree spirit)
Norwegian
1 entries- dryade noun (female tree spirit)
Persian
1 entries- دریاد noun (female tree spirit)
Polish
1 entries- driada noun (female tree spirit)
Portuguese
2 entries- dríada noun (female tree spirit)
- dríade noun (female tree spirit)
Russian
1 entries- дриа́да noun (female tree spirit)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- drijada noun (female tree spirit)
- дријада noun (female tree spirit)
Slovak
1 entries- dryáda noun (female tree spirit)
Spanish
3 entries- dría noun (female tree spirit)
- dríada noun (female tree spirit)
- dríade noun (female tree spirit)
Swedish
1 entries- dryad noun (female tree spirit)
Ukrainian
1 entries- дріада noun (female tree spirit)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
There it had stood for years, close beside a mighty oak, under which sat often the kindly old priest, who told stories to the listening children. The young chestnut tree listened with them: the Dryad inside it, who was still a child, could remember the time when the tree was so small that it only reached a little higher than the ferns and long blades of grass.
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