Tom is a centaur and Mary is a nymph.
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Nymph
Synonyms for "nymph" (71 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (35)
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2 entriesRelated terms
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
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28 entriesShowing 16 of 28 words.
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2 entriesis a
5 entriesrelated to
26 entriesShowing 16 of 26 words.
Translations
99 translations across 39 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- νύμφη noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
Armenian
1 entries- հարսնյակ noun (insect larva)
Bulgarian
1 entries- нимфа noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
Catalan
2 entries- nimfa noun (insect larva)
- nimfa noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 美女 noun (young girl who may inspire lust)
- 若蟲 /若虫 noun (insect larva)
Czech
2 entries- nymfa noun (insect larva)
- nymfa noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
Danish
2 entries- nymfe noun (insect larva)
- nymfe noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
Dutch
2 entries- nimf noun (insect larva)
- nimf noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
Erzya
1 entries- ведюрьва noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
Esperanto
1 entries- nimfo noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
Estonian
1 entries- nümf noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
Finnish
3 entries- lolita noun (young girl who may inspire lust)
- nymfi noun (insect larva)
- nymfi noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
French
2 entries- nymphe noun (insect larva)
- nymphe noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
Galician
3 entries- ninfa noun (insect larva)
- ninfa noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
- ninfa noun (young girl who may inspire lust)
German
2 entries- Nymphe noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
- Nymphomanin noun (young girl who may inspire lust)
Greek
4 entries- νυμφίδιο noun (young girl who may inspire lust)
- νύμφη noun (insect larva)
- νύμφη noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
- χρυσαλλίδα noun (insect larva)
Hungarian
2 entries- lárva noun (insect larva)
- nimfa noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
Ido
1 entries- nimfo noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
Irish
2 entries- bé choille noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
- nimfeach noun (insect larva)
Italian
4 entries- ninfa noun (insect larva)
- ninfa noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
- ninfa noun (young girl who may inspire lust)
- sirenetta noun (young girl who may inspire lust)
Japanese
4 entries- ニュンペー noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
- ニンフ noun (insect larva)
- ニンフ noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
- 乙女 noun (young girl who may inspire lust)
Latin
1 entries- nympha noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
Macedonian
4 entries- ла́рва noun (insect larva)
- ни́мфа noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
- ни́мфа noun (young girl who may inspire lust)
- уба́вица noun (young girl who may inspire lust)
Māori
1 entries- pokopoko noun (insect larva)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- nymfe noun (insect larva)
- nymfe noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
- nymfe noun (young girl who may inspire lust)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- nymfe noun (insect larva)
- nymfe noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
- nymfe noun (young girl who may inspire lust)
Old English
1 entries- ielfen noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
Polish
2 entries- nimfa noun (insect larva)
- nimfa noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
Portuguese
3 entries- ninfa noun (insect larva)
- ninfa noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
- ninfa noun (young girl who may inspire lust)
Romanian
2 entries- nimfă noun (insect larva)
- nimfă noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
Russian
4 entries- краса́вица noun (young girl who may inspire lust)
- красо́тка noun (young girl who may inspire lust)
- личи́нка noun (insect larva)
- ни́мфа noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- ainnir noun (young girl who may inspire lust)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- nȋmfa noun (insect larva)
- nȋmfa noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
- rùsālka noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
- víla noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
Spanish
4 entries- hénide noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
- ninfa noun (insect larva)
- ninfa noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
- ninfa noun (young girl who may inspire lust)
Swahili
2 entries- mwanamwali noun (young girl who may inspire lust)
- nimfi noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
Swedish
3 entries- nymf noun (insect larva)
- nymf noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
- nymf noun (young girl who may inspire lust)
Thai
1 entries- นางไม้ noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
Volapük
1 entries- neüf noun (mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit)
Welsh
1 entries- nymff noun (insect larva)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Hermaphroditus fell in love with the nymph Salmacis.
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A nymph lives there.
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The nymph’s eyes blazed with passion.
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