Definitions for dryad

dryad dry·ad

Spelling: [drahy-uh d, -ad]
IPA: /ˈdraɪ əd, -æd/

Dryad is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in dryad (addry).

Definitions for dryad

noun

  1. a deity or nymph of the woods.

Origin of dryad

1545-55; extracted from Greek Dryádes, plural of Dryás, derivative of drŷ(s) tree, oak

Examples for dryad

It was a dressing-room for a nymph of the woods, for a dryad, for Diana herself.

He bit his tongue painfully in covering that slip, but dryad had not seemed to notice it.

This was that a kiss from a dryad made a person ten years younger.

Our first object was to ascertain the position of the dryad.

As with the Greek dryad, her life is bound up with that of a tree.

This was, that a kiss from a dryad made a person ten years younger.

All his life he longed to see the dryad whom he had lost for ever.

Knock at the rough rind of this ilex-tree, and summon forth the dryad!

And I squeezed also the hand of the dryad, and blushed when I danced with her.

Though—but tell me about the dryad who was engaged to be married.

Word Value for dryad
Scrable

10

Words with friends

9

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