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Definition of Sylph
1. Noun. A slender graceful young woman.
2. Noun. An elemental being believed to inhabit the air.
Definition of Sylph
1. n. An imaginary being inhabiting the air; a fairy.
Definition of Sylph
1. Noun. A wood nymph. ¹
2. Noun. The elemental being of air, usually female. ¹
3. Noun. A slender woman or girl, usually graceful and sometimes with the implication of sublime station over everyday people. ¹
4. Noun. A mainly dark green and blue hummingbird, the male of which has a long forked tail. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sylph
1. a slender, graceful girl or woman [n -S] : SYLPHIC, SYLPHISH, SYLPHY [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sylph
Literary usage of Sylph
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"A diminutive of sylph. Also spelled sylphide, and sometimes used adjectively.
... Resembling a sylph; graceful; slender: as, it sylph-like form. ..."
2. The Best Psychic Stories edited by Joseph Lewis French (1920)
"I paused, highly pleased at the encounter, and the sylph—for it was a sylph ...
I asked the sylph, and she pointed below to a trench which spoke loud its ..."
3. The Best Psychic Stories by Joseph Lewis French (1920)
"I paused, highly pleased at the encounter, and the sylph—for it was a sylph ...
I asked the sylph, and she pointed below to a trench which spoke loud its ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"A diminutive of sylph. Also spelled sylphide, and sometimes used adjectively.
... Resembling a sylph; graceful; slender: as, it sylph-like form. ..."
5. The Best Psychic Stories edited by Joseph Lewis French (1920)
"I paused, highly pleased at the encounter, and the sylph—for it was a sylph ...
I asked the sylph, and she pointed below to a trench which spoke loud its ..."
6. The Best Psychic Stories by Joseph Lewis French (1920)
"I paused, highly pleased at the encounter, and the sylph—for it was a sylph ...
I asked the sylph, and she pointed below to a trench which spoke loud its ..."
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