Advertisement

Advertisement

View definitions for dryad

dryad

noun as in nymph

Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

His servants shrank from the sacrilege when he ordered them to fell it; whereupon he seized an ax himself and attacked the mighty trunk around which the dryads used to hold their dances.

Read more on Literature

The knockers— hardy mountain dwellers accustomed to the cold—carried those who would have otherwise frozen: some of the dryads, or the winged sylphs, whose bodies were limp in the wintry air.

Read more on Literature

He writes, “I have called this plant Dryas after the dryads, the nymphs that live in oaks, since the leaf has a certain likeness to the oak leaf.”

Read more on New York Times

“I was at the other end of the park. The dryads had this great idea of passing me through the trees to get me here. They don’t understand height very well.”

Read more on Literature

I sat at the top of Half-Blood Hill and watched the dryads come and go, singing to the dying pine tree.

Read more on Literature

Advertisement

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement