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as in mermaid
a mythical goddess represented as a young girl and said to live outdoors
she bought the book of fairy tales for the beautiful engravings of nymphs and fairies featured between the stories
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as in girl
a female person who has not yet reached adulthood
the neighborhood nymphs were gathered at the local pizza parlor
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Recent Examples of nymph
Everything feels more whimsical, more fairy-like, more nymph-coded, as if fashion itself is trying to mirror the romance of the natural world.
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Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
Named after the sea nymphs of Greek mythology, Nereid is believed to be around 210 miles (338 kilometers) in diameter.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 20 May 2026
Sacramento County health inspectors closed four restaurants this week, including Carmichael’s Royal Cuisine, where a live nymph cockroach was found crawling on the salt and pepper shakers.
—Sacbee.com, 16 May 2026
August is when the season begins to ebb, with fewer nymphs around and eggs hatching larvae that are largely free of diseases.
—Finch Walker, USA Today, 15 May 2026
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Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
Named after the sea nymphs of Greek mythology, Nereid is believed to be around 210 miles (338 kilometers) in diameter.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 20 May 2026
Sacramento County health inspectors closed four restaurants this week, including Carmichael’s Royal Cuisine, where a live nymph cockroach was found crawling on the salt and pepper shakers.
—Sacbee.com, 16 May 2026
August is when the season begins to ebb, with fewer nymphs around and eggs hatching larvae that are largely free of diseases.
—Finch Walker, USA Today, 15 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nymph
Noun
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Jacob Elordi as a Chanel mermaid.—
José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
10 June 2026
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The dress’s mermaid-esque skirt dripped in feathers all the way down.—
Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
9 June 2026
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Screwworms are actually a type of maggot, or larva.—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
11 June 2026
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White larva may also be visible within the skin lesions, Hohenhaus said.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
11 June 2026
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Stitch centers on a lonely girl who befriends a blue puppy that turns out to be an escaped alien engineered to be a weapon of mass destruction.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
12 June 2026
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Southlake Carroll boys and girls soccer both had teams that were standouts in the Fort Worth area.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
12 June 2026
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In Ovid’s version of the story, after cutting down a sacred oak, Erysichthon is cursed with insatiable hunger by the dryad nymph who inhabited it.—
Ellen Walker,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Sep. 2025
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Having regained his health, Geralt heads off with Jaskier and the dryad Milva to find Ciri, following a little skirmish with some power-mad guards.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
27 July 2023
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“Nymph.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nymph. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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