Dryad Definition

drīəd, -ăd
dryades, dryads
noun
dryads
Any of the nymphs living in trees; wood nymph.
Webster's New World

(Greek mythology) In Greek myth, a female tree spirit.

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Other Word Forms of Dryad

Noun

Singular:
dryad
Plural:
dryads

Origin of Dryad

  • From Old French driade (“wood nymph”), from Latin dryas, dryadis (“dryad”), from Ancient Greek δρυάς (druas, “dryad”), from δρῦς (drus, “oak”), from Proto-Indo-European *derew(o)- (“tree, wood”); cf. Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English Driad from Latin Dryas Dryad- from Greek Druas from drūs tree deru- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Dryad Sentence Examples

  • Our pagan forefathers believed the oak to be a sacred tree and that the marks in the bark revealed the presence of a dryad.

  • In this account of the development of an independent, active and intelligent being from the stage where man like the Dryad is a portion of the natural life around him, Hegel has combined what may be termed a physiology and pathology of the mind - a subject far wider than that of ordinary psychologies, and one of vast intrinsic importance.

  • From 1868 to 1870 he commanded the "Dryad," and was engaged in the suppression of the slave trade.

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