Synonyms for dryad

Grammar : Noun

Spell : drahy-uh d, -ad

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdraɪ əd, -æd

Définition of dryad

Origin : 1550s, from Latin dryas, from Greek dryas (plural dryades) "wood nymph," from drus (genitive dryos) "oak," from PIE *deru- "tree, wood, oak" (see tree (n.)).

As in nymph : noun female nature spirit

Example sentences :

It was a dressing-room for a nymph of the woods, for a dryad, for Diana herself.
Extract from : « The Innocent Adventuress » by Mary Hastings Bradley

He bit his tongue painfully in covering that slip, but Dryad had not seemed to notice it.
Extract from : « Once to Every Man » by Larry Evans

Though—but tell me about the Dryad who was engaged to be married.
Extract from : « The Longest Journey » by E. M. Forster

All his life he longed to see the dryad whom he had lost for ever.
Extract from : « The Book of Stories for the Storyteller » by Fanny E. Coe

Knock at the rough rind of this ilex-tree, and summon forth the Dryad!
Extract from : « The Marble Faun, Volume I. » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Our first object was to ascertain the position of the Dryad.
Extract from : « Percival Keene » by Frederick Marryat

This was, that a kiss from a Dryad made a person ten years younger.
Extract from : « Children's Literature » by Charles Madison Curry

This was that a kiss from a Dryad made a person ten years younger.
Extract from : « A Chosen Few » by Frank R. Stockton

And I squeezed also the hand of the Dryad, and blushed when I danced with her.
Extract from : « Rowlandson's Oxford » by A. Hamilton Gibbs

As with the Greek dryad, her life is bound up with that of a tree.
Extract from : « The Sacred Tree » by J. H. Philpot

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