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Definition: SYLPHID |
SYLPHIDNoun1. A little sylph; a young or diminutive sylph. |
Date "SYLPHID" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
Etymology: Sylphid \Sylph"id\, noun. [French expression sylphide, feminine See Sylph.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Jupiter | Allah, Bathala, Brahm, Brahma, Brahma, cloud-compeller, Devi, Durga, Kali, oread, the Great Spirit, Ushas; water nymph, wood nymph; Yama, Varuna, Zeus; Vishnu, Siva, Shiva, Krishna, Juggernath, Buddha; Isis, Osiris, Ra; Belus, Bel, Baal, Asteroth; Thor, Odin; Mumbo Jumbo; good genius, tutelary genius; demiurge, familiar; sibyl; fairy, fay; sylph, sylphid; Ariel, peri, nymph, nereid, dryad, seamaid, banshee, benshie, Ormuzd; Oberon, Mab, hamadryad, naiad, mermaid, kelpie, Ondine, nixie, sprite; denizens of the air; pixy; (bad spirit). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "SYLPHID"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | silfidã, silfã. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SYLPHID": sylphids. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "SYLPHID" (pronounced 'Sylph"id'): AEneid, Antacid, Arid, Avid, Biacid, Calid, fetid, florid, Fracid, frigid, gelid, gravid, insipid, intrepid, Lepid, livid, Madid, monacid, Monte-acid, naid, Nitid, Nonacid, Overrigid, Oxacid, Oxid, Oxyacid, Pavid, Pentacid, Placid, Polyacid, Pyroacid, Rabid, rigid, sapid, Semiacid, Semifluid, semisolid, Sipid, solid, spermatozoid, Spumid, squalid, stolid, subacid, Subrigid, Subtepid, Sulphacid, Sursolid, Tabid, tepid. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-h-i-l-p-s-y" | |
-2 letters: dishy, idyls, shily, sylph. | |
-3 letters: dips, dish, hips, hyps, idly, idyl, lids, lips, lisp, phis, pily, pish, ship, sild, slid, slip, syli, syph, yids, yips. | |
-4 letters: dip, dis, hid, hip, his, hyp, ids, lid, lip, lis, phi, pis, ply, psi, shy, sip, sly, spy, yid, yip. | |
-5 letters: hi, id, is, li, pi, sh, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-h-i-l-p-s-y" | |
+1 letter: ladyship, sylphids. | |
+2 letters: diphenyls, ladyships, phylloids, prudishly. | |
+3 letters: diaphyseal, diaphysial, hypoploids, nymphalids. | |
+4 letters: hyperploids, lyophilised, postholiday, psychedelia, psychedelic, staphylinid. | |
+5 letters: diaphanously, hyperboloids, hypocycloids, phosphatidyl, podophyllins, polyhedrosis, psychedelias, psychedelics, spheroidally, staphylinids. | |
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