Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Greek Mythology Any of the ocean nymphs believed to be the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A marine mollusk, as distinguished from a naiad or fresh-water shell.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Greek mythology) A daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (Greek mythology) sea nymph who was a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys
Etymologies
- Greek ōkeanis, ōkeanid-, from Ōkeanos, Oceanus. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“To the people of Atlantis she is Princess Naia, half-mortal daughter of the Oceanid Queen Metis and her long-lost human consort.”
“Tradition, as reported by the Greek traveller, Pausanias, identified her with the Oceanid, or "daughter of Ocean", of Greek poetry.”
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Legendary Creatures of the Sea
And other bodies of water.
sea god, sea-goddess, Neptune, Amphitrite, Triton, Nereus, Oceanus, Proteus, Tethys, Doris, Manannan, manawydan and 51 more...
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