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Nereid

noun

(pl. E. nereids, L. nereides)

(Greek mythology) any of the 50 sea nymphs who were daughters of the sea god Nereus.

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"Nereid" Quotes from Famous Books

... symbolical reference to a great division of Nature,—a heathen assertion of God in the sea, as well as elsewhere. The same is true of the marine deities of Greece and Rome, which were not fishy, though the words Triton and Nereid have led to misconception, as in relation to those words it is necessary to understand a distinction that has not always been made. The mythological Triton was one,—a sea-god subordinate to Poseidon, and played ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 • Various

... Gate more famed Stands, or once stood, from old Belinus named, So judged Antiquity; and therein wrongs A name, allusive strictly to two Tongues[1] Her School hard by the Goddess Rhetoric opes, And gratis deals to Oyster-wives her Tropes. With Nereid green, green Nereid disputes, Replies, rejoins, confutes, and still confutes. One her coarse sense by metaphors expounds, And one in literalities abounds; In mood and figure these keep up the din: ...

— The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 • Charles Lamb

Words linked to "Nereid" : Thetis, Greek mythology, sea nymph