wood nymph
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9.5
- noun
- /wʊd nɪmf/
- Literature
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ninfa de los bosques
- At first appearances, it was a beautiful wood nymph, but closer inspection revealed that it had long, sharp fangs.
If it's not Harry Potter or wood nymphs, it's Yoda or Kevin O'Leary.
- If it's not Harry Potter or wood nymphs, it's Yoda or Kevin O'Leary.
- Now you know what a sultry wood nymph looks like.
Examples
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If it's not Harry Potter or wood nymphs, it's Yoda or Kevin O'Leary.
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In Greek mythology, a wood nymph is often depicted as a beautiful female spirit that inhabits the forests.
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Now you know what a sultry wood nymph looks like.
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If the wood nymph left the park, would Park Avenue excite her?
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And since she can't find any other fairies, elves, gnomes, or wood nymphs to bond with here on the island, she'll instead work the southern angle, and maybe this Jeff Kent character and she can work together.
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The wood nymph danced gracefully among the trees, enchanting all who passed by.
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According to legend, a wood nymph can grant wishes to those who show respect to nature.
Synonyms
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A female spirit of nature often shown as a young beautiful woman
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A spirit that lives in and protects a tree, often an oak
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'wood' (a wooded area) and 'nymph' (a mythical female spirit), yielding a spirit associated with forests. This is a straightforward noun-noun compound following common compositional patterns (and similar constructions exist in many languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would understand it.
Etymology
Wood nymph comes from old stories where a small female spirit, a nymph, lived in the wood among the trees. People pictured her as a graceful woman who 'watched over' the forest, so the phrase came to mean 'a female spirit of the forest'.