Definitions for naiads

naiads nai·ad

Spelling: [ney-ad, -uh d, nahy-]
IPA: /ˈneɪ æd, -əd, ˈnaɪ-/

Naiads is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in naiads (aadins).

Definitions for naiads

noun

  1. (sometimes initial capital letter) Classical Mythology. any of a class of nymphs presiding over rivers and springs.
  2. the juvenile form of the dragonfly, damselfly, or mayfly.
  3. a female swimmer, especially an expert one.
  4. Botany. a plant of the genus Najas, having narrow leaves and solitary flowers.
  5. Entomology. an aquatic nymph.
  6. a freshwater mussel.

Origin of naiads

Latin Nāïad- (stem of Nāïas) Greek Nāïás a water nymph

Examples for naiads

For a fortnight we cruised without seeing any vessel but the naiad.

If you look in the dictionary today, it says “naiad: any skillful female wimmer.”

In every tree a Dryad165 dwelt, in every wave a naiad sported.

She vanished like a naiad startled by the approach of a mortal.

Bit of a lake; bathing-shed; the naiad's bower: pretty water to see.'

"She looks like a fabled naiad just risen from the deep," was my criticism on her.

Why it is thus, one knows in heaven above: But, a poor naiad, I guess not.

First, a naiad is a water nymph in Greek myth—a woman who looked over the waterways.

Not so Aimée; her pencil had been busy all the while, but there was no naiad on her page.

That is as much to say, then, that the story of my naiad has displeased the king?

Word Value for naiads
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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