naiad
noun
any of a class of nymphs presiding over rivers and springs.
naiads
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pluralof naiad.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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To my relief, the directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, working with the screenwriter Julia Cox, trace Diana’s mythic roots not just to the naiads, but to zealots like Captain Ahab.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
In “Alas, the Nymphs… ,” the latest installment in the “Men Go Down” trilogy by John Jahnke and his company, Hotel Savant, the naiads are in modern-day Turkey, re-enacting a vengeful memory from ancient Greece.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2015
Centuries later, the dryads have died from the trees and the naiads from the pools.
From Time Magazine Archive
Birds hiding amidst twisted foliage, snakes coiled around trunks of trees . . . fern-crooks . . . feathers . . . scarabs . . . naiads swimming . . . knights in full armor.
From Time Magazine Archive
The grove was filled with satyrs and dryads and naiads up from the water—hundreds of them, anxious to hear what would happen.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
