单词 | mountain nymph |
释义 | mountain nymphn. 1. A nymph (nymph n.1 1) inhabiting mountains. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > nymph > other types of oreada1393 mountain nymph1622 nepheliad1818 poliad1818 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxx. 164 The Mountaine Nymphs..doe giue each other chase, At Hood-winke, Barley-breake, at Tick, or Prison-base. 1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 32 The Mountain Nymph, sweet Liberty. 1651 T. Stanley Poems 31 All the mountain-Nymphs about him [sc. Adonis] weep. 1707 N. Tate Injur'd Love i. 7 The Mountain Nymph, that dresses at a Fountain Her inn'cent Head with Daisies. 1794 H. B. Dudley Travellers in Switzerland ii. v. 55 Where, I wonder, is my Mountain Nymph? 1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. iii. 115 Mountain-nymph charm-struck by the night. 1908 ‘M. Field’ Wild Honey 54 Macris, the mountain nymph, lifts up a child, Brought under name of Bacchus to her knee. 1996 Oxf. Classical Dict. (ed. 3) 1056/2 Oreads are mountain-nymphs. ΚΠ 1869–73 T. R. Jones tr. A. E. Brehm Cassell's Bk. Birds III. 52 The Mountain Nymphs (Oreotrochilus). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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