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  • noun Plural form of naiad.

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Examples

  • He is right to admonish us for wasting water but probably wrong to threaten us with the imminent vengeance of the naiads and sprites.

    Any Drop to Drink? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto 2011

  • Certainly the idea of protective naiads and life-givers was present.

    In Mark Morris Dance Group's anniversary tour, girlpower enchants with grace Sarah Kaufman 2011

  • The assorted naiads and fauns are excellent; Akane Takada is an unfeasibly witty, winsome goat.

    The Royal Ballet: Sylvia – review Judith Mackrell 2010

  • Spotless Doric columns are crowned by a stone frieze of warriors and naiads bracketing the etched phrase “A posse ad esse.”

    The Spirit Upwelling 2009

  • You get to interact with all sorts of fantastical creatures, including faeries, brownies, satyrs, imps and naiads....along with some truly evil creatures.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Stephanie 2009

  • You get to interact with all sorts of fantastical creatures, including faeries, brownies, satyrs, imps and naiads....along with some truly evil creatures.

    Return to Fablehaven..... Stephanie 2009

  • Etymologically speaking, a fairy is something quite particular, related in kind to the naiads, or water nymphs, and while of the genus, we are sui generis.

    Excerpt: The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue 2006

  • The naiads, nymphs, divine, have as their progeny Sileni, who are much more like myself, I take it, than like you.

    Symposium 2007

  • No ingenue among the naiads, a truant from her river spring, could have been shyer, whiter, more ingenuous than this young girl, seemingly about sixteen years old, ignorant of evil and of the storms of life, and fresh from some church in which she must have prayed the angels to call her to heaven before the time.

    The Magic Skin 2007

  • It is hard to determine precisely what the Greeks and Romans understood by adoring, or whether they adored fauns, sylvans, dryads and naiads as they adored the twelve superior gods.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

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