Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. In the occult philosophy of Paracelsus, a being having water as its element.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An apparatus for irrigating the eye in the operation of extracting cataract.
- n. A water-spirit of the female sex, resembling in character the sylphs or spirits of the air, and corresponding in some measure to the naiads of classical mythology. According to Paracelsus, when an undine married a mortal and bore a child she received a soul.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One of a class of fabled female water spirits who might receive a human soul by intermarrying with a mortal.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of various female water spirits
Etymologies
- Modern Latin undina, from Latin unda ("wave"). (Wiktionary)
- New Latin undīna, from Latin unda, wave. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“When I had swum a while -- how many breaths I cannot say, for I did not draw breath -- I recalled the undine and set out to find her.”
“There were some suggested improvements, including building up the growing love between the plumber and the undine, mentioning earlier that undines are incurable romantics, and changing the plumber's ex (who shows up several times) into several separate exes to demonstrate the plumber's previous personal history.”
6/18/08: Taos Toolbox, days 10-11: Some have broken under the strain of it
“For a variety of reasons I decided to use on a story idea I had a long time ago about a magical plumber who meets an undine.”
“Something that could only be an undine stared into Kellen's eyes for a long moment before flitting away.”
“They came to a place where a small waterfall spilled down into a deep rocky catch-basin, which in turn overflowed to make the stream where he had seen the undine the day before.”
“She (to persist in personifying the sensation as female) is a wild and sea-eyed undine, the darling daughter of adventure, the sister of risk, and it is for her rare and always ephemeral embrace, the temporary pressure she exerts on the membrane of ecstasy, that many men leave home.”
“A new career: hired background. undine posted at 3:43 PM”
“I'll skip over asking them to see that themselves. undine commented at 1:33 PM~”
“Nope, not unless he's really hungry. undine commented at 1:34 PM~”
“What a cool family you have. undine posted at 5:49 PM”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘undine’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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phrontistery-u
from phrontistery.info
uxorious, uxorial, uvid, uvelloid, uvala, utriform, utriculiform, utricle, utricide, utraquist, utinam, utilitarianism and 175 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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cryptids, bestiaries & mythology
pope lick monster, urisk, vargr, yale, bonnacon, crocotta, caladrius, basilisk, cockatrice, agathodaemon, ajattara, akaname and 10 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
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je les adore!
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Fictional beasties
elf, gnome, dwarf, sprite, troll, fairy, nymph, imp, brownie, sasquatch, yeti, wookiee and 574 more...
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junemoonchild's Favorite Words
Aubrey, astrology, Cancer, Taurus, dybbuk, enchantress, love, mystery, mysteriarch, spirit, melancholy, disintegration and 129 more...
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delcj's Words
gavotte, perverse, tchotchkes, schmoop, divisural, triplicostate, albatross, snuggery, virgule, separatrix, solidus, tetrodotoxin and 116 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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hush, dove, euphoria, nebulae, bryn mawr, darling, phoenix, nape, cream, butterscotch, cosmos, frost and 190 more...
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flannagan's Words
netop, kenspeckle, loden, framboise, providence, milquetoast, schism, cadence, thrush, asphodel, clandestine, aesthete and 196 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Femmesque
Curious words having to do with women: positive or negative; feminine, observational, technical, weird, stupid, crass, etc. I loathe some of these words but I'm using this list as a catch-all... ev...
mittelschmerz, gynotikolobomasso..., ingenue, uxorious, hogminny, quim, suffragette, damsel, madame, parturient, testatrix, mediatrix and 188 more...
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random assortment
antinomian ranter, supercilious, minion, carmine, circumlocution, mellisma, riverward, microtextual, callipygian, confelicitous, googlewhackery, dovetail and 179 more...
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5-1
Hecko, words! Thanks for staying with me. :-)
avenue, viscous, zeroth, usher, scarcely, viability, snout, sole, purify, riotous, menace, moist and 364 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for undine.

dontcry No, pterodactyl, thank YOU! May 25, 2008
pterodactyl Dontcry... it took me a moment, but now I'm chuckling unstoppably. Thank you! :-) May 24, 2008
dontcry See hork. May 24, 2008