classical mythology A minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden.

Roget 129: infant, babe, baby, babe in arms; nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling; papoose, bambino; kid; vagitus.    child, bairn [Scot.], little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling^†; elf.    youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker^†, callant^†, whipster^†, whippersnapper, whiffet [U.S.], schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master.    scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin, codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin^†; aurelia^†, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha^†, orphan, pupa, staddle^†.    girl; lass, lassie; wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle; maid, maiden; virgin; hoyden.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 374: woman, she, her, female, petticoat.    feminality^†, muliebrity^†; womanhood etc. (adolescence) 131.    womankind; the sex, the fair; fair sex, softer sex; weaker vessel.    dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs.    lady, donna belle [Sp.], matron, dowager, goody, gammer^†; Frau [G.], frow^†, Vrouw [Du.], rani; good woman, good wife; squaw; wife etc. (marriage) 903; matronage, matronhood^†.    bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist.    nymph, wench, grisette^†; girl etc. (youth) 129.    [Effeminacy] sissy, betty, cot betty [U.S.], cotquean^†, henhussy^†, mollycoddle, muff, old woman.    [Female animal] hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare; she goat, Nanny goat, tabita; ewe, cow; lioness, tigress; vixen.    gynecaeum^†.    estrogen, oestrogen.    consanguinity etc. 166 [Female relatives], paternity etc. 11.    lesbian, dyke [Slang].    ... meer laten zien

Roget 979: god, goddess; heathen gods and goddesses; deva^†; Jupiter, Jove &c.; pantheon.    Allah^†, Bathala^†, Brahm^†, Brahma^†, Brahma^†, cloud-compeller, Devi, Durga, Kali, oread^†, the Great Spirit, Ushas; water nymph, wood nymph; Yama, Varuna, Zeus; Vishnu [Hindu deities], Siva, Shiva, Krishna, Juggernath^†, Buddha; Isis [Egyptian deities], Osiris, Ra; Belus, Bel, Baal^†, Asteroth &c.; Thor [Norse deities], Odin; Mumbo Jumbo; good genius, tutelary genius; demiurge, familiar; sibyl; fairy, fay; sylph, sylphid; Ariel^†, peri, nymph, nereid, dryad, seamaid, banshee, benshie^†, Ormuzd; Oberon, Mab, hamadryad^†, naiad, mermaid, kelpie^†, Ondine, nixie, sprite; denizens of the air; pixy etc. (bad spirit) 980.    mythology; heathen-mythology, fairy-mythology; Lempriere, folklore.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: nimf
Pools: kamena, nimfa

A larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly).

Nederlands: nimf

A voluptuously beautiful young woman.

synoniem: houri.

Pools: hurysa, krasawica, piękność, sylfida