wood nymph

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   a deity or nymph of the woods

   Synonymsdryad

   Broadernymph

   Narrowerhamadryad

Questions about wood nymph

What does wood nymph mean?

wood nymph means "a deity or nymph of the woods".

What is another word for wood nymph?

Close synonyms include dryad. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wood nymph a common word?

wood nymph is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.