Definitions for dryads

dryads dry·ad

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

Dryads is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in dryads (addrsy).

Definitions for dryads

noun

  1. a deity or nymph of the woods.

Origin of dryads

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

Examples for dryads

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Word Value for dryads
Scrable

10

Words with friends

9

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