Usually means: Young nature spirit, usually female.
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  1. nymph: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. nymph: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nymph: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nymph: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nymph: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nymph, nymph, nymph, nymph: Wordnik
  7. nymph: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. nymph: Wiktionary
  9. nymph: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nymph: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nymph: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. nymph: Dictionary.com
  13. nymph: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Nymph (Dungeons & Dragons), Nymph (Greek mythology), Nymph (biology), Nymph (disambiguation), Nymph, The Nymph: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Nymph/, Nymph: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. nymph: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. nymph: Rhymezone
  18. Nymph/, nymph: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. nymph: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. nymph: Free Dictionary
  21. nymph: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. nymph: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nymph-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nymph (Greek mythology), nymph: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Nymph: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Nymph (Greek mythology), nymph, nymph(o)-: Medical dictionary
  6. Nymph: Drug Medical Dictionary
  7. Nymph: Gray's Anatomy (1918)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. DRAGONFLY TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Nymph: HYPP Zoology
  3. Biological Control (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)
  5. nymph: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nymph: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nymph: Sports Definitions

(Note: See nymphal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Any female nature spirit associated with water, forests, grotto, wind, etc.
noun:  A young girl, especially one who is attractive, beautiful or graceful.
noun:  (entomology) The larva of certain insects.
noun:  (entomology) Any of various butterflies of the family Nymphalidae.
verb:  (fishing) To fish using a nymph larva as bait.

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