Usually means: Graceful, slender, mythical air spirit.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word sylph:

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  1. sylph: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sylph: Merriam-Webster
  3. sylph: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sylph: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sylph: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sylph: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sylph, sylph: Wordnik
  8. sylph: Wiktionary
  9. sylph: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sylph: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sylph: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sylph: Dictionary.com
  13. sylph: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Sylph (Dungeons & Dragons), Sylph (disambiguation), Sylph, The Sylph: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Sylph: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. sylph: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. sylph: Rhymezone
  18. Sylph: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. sylph: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. sylph: FreeDictionary.org
  21. sylph: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. sylph: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sylph: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sylph: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sylph: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See sylphlike as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (mythology) An invisible being of the air.
noun:  The elemental being of air, usually female.
noun:  (by extension) A slender woman or girl, usually graceful and sometimes with the implication of sublime station over everyday people.
noun:  (ornithology) Any of the mainly dark green and blue hummingbirds (genus Aglaiocercus), the male of which has a long forked tail.

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