Usually means: Sea nymphs in Greek mythology.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nereid, nereid: Merriam-Webster
  2. Nereid, nereid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Nereid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Nereid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Nereid: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nereid, nereid: Wordnik
  7. Nereid, nereid: Wiktionary
  8. Nereid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Nereid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. nereid: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Nereid, nereid: Dictionary.com
  12. Nereid: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Nereid (disambiguation), Nereid (moon), Nereid (worm), Nereid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Nereid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. nereid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Nereid: Rhymezone
  17. Nereid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. nereid: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. nereid: FreeDictionary.org
  20. nereid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Nereid: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nereid: Encyclopedia

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

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nereid: Extragalactic Astronomy
  2. NEREID: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nereid: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nereid)

noun:  (Greek mythology) One of 50 sea nymphs who were attendants upon Poseidon (Neptune), and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes in human form and sometimes with the tail of a fish.
noun:  (astronomy) One of the satellites of the planet Neptune
noun:  (zoology) Alternative form of nereidid. [(zoology) Any polychaete worm of the Nereididae.]

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