nymph
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 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
Types & categories
- Greco-Roman deity hypernym
- Echo hyponym
- Hesperides hyponym
- Hyades hyponym
- Oread hyponym
- Pleiades hyponym
- Sterope hyponym
- water nymph hyponym
- Daphne hyponym
- dryad hyponym
- Salmacis hyponym
Related & opposite
- classical mythology domain topic
Sense 2 noun
a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly)
Types & categories
- larva hypernym
Sense 3 noun
a voluptuously beautiful young woman
Types & categories
- woman hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | classical mythology |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | Greco-Roman deity |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Echo |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Hesperides |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Hyades |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Oread |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Pleiades |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Sterope |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | water nymph |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Daphne |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | dryad |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Salmacis |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | larva |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | woman |