Meaning of Nereid | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of Nereid.
   Greek, alt-of
2. Any one of the fifty sea-nymphs who were daughters of the sea-god Nereus and attendants upon Poseidon (Neptune), and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes in human form and sometimes with the tail of a fish.
   Greek
3. One of the satellites of the planet Neptune.
4. A youthful and pretty bather.
   figuratively

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Examples

“I knew in the back of my mind that the “nereid” wore a bikini intended for photography and that she lived in that bikini all summer.”

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