sylph
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /sɪlf/
sylph (plural sylphs)
- (mythology) An invisible being of the air.
- Synonyms: sylphid
- The elemental being of air, usually female.
- (by extension) A slender woman or girl, usually graceful and sometimes with the implication of sublime station over everyday people.
- 1811, Mary Bruton, Self-Control (novel):
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- 1811, Mary Bruton, Self-Control (novel):
- (ornithology) Any of the mainly dark green and blue hummingbirds (genus Aglaiocercus), the male of which has a long forked tail.
- French: sylphe, sylphide
- German: Sylphe, Luftgeist
- Italian: silfide, silfo
- Portuguese: silfo, sílfide
- Spanish: sílfide
- German: Sylphide (archaic)
- Italian: silfide
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