Sylph

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A slim, graceful woman or girl.
  • n. In the occult philosophy of Paracelsus, a being that has air as its element.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An invisible being of the air
  • n. The elemental being of air, usually female.
  • n. A slender woman or girl, usually graceful and sometimes with the implication of sublime station over everyday people.
  • n. A mainly dark green and blue hummingbird, the male of which has a long forked tail.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An imaginary being inhabiting the air; a fairy.
  • n. Fig.: A slender, graceful woman.
  • n. Any one of several species of very brilliant South American humming birds, having a very long and deeply-forked tail.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An imaginary being inhabiting the air; an elemental spirit of the air, according to the system of Paracelsus, holding an intermediate place between material and immaterial beings.
  • n. In ornithology, one of various humming-birds with long forficate tail: so called from their grace and beauty: as, the blue-tailed sylph, Cynanthus forficatus. See cut under sappho.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a slender graceful young woman
  • n. an elemental being believed to inhabit the air
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