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nereid

noun
/ˈnɪəɹiɪd/

Etymology

From the stem of Latin Nērēis, from Ancient Greek Νηρηΐς (Nērēḯs), from Νηρεύς (Nēreús, “Nereus”) + -ις (-is), literally “sprung of Nereus”. By surface analysis, Nereus + -id.

  1. derived from Νηρηΐς

Definitions

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Nereid.

  2. A youthful and pretty bather.

    • I knew in the back of my mind that the “nereid” wore a bikini intended for photography and that she lived in that bikini all summer.

  3. Alternative form of nereidid.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Any one of the fifty sea-nymphs who were daughters of the sea-god Nereus and attendants…

      Any one of the fifty sea-nymphs who were daughters of the sea-god Nereus and attendants upon Poseidon (Neptune), and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes in human form and sometimes with the tail of a fish.

    2. One of the satellites of the planet Neptune.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for nereid. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA