noun
Meaning 1
A small nymph.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
nymphet
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/nɪmˈfɛt/
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noun
Meaning 2
A sexually attractive girl or young woman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
a sexually attractive young woman
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
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Broader terms: woman, adult female
History
Etymology
From nymph + -et (“diminutive”), first attested 1612. The second sense was popularized by Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita.
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 仙女 (xiānnǚ) — A sexually attractive girl or young woman
- Czech: nymfička — A sexually attractive girl or young woman
- Czech: lolita — A sexually attractive girl or young woman
- Czech: lolitka — A sexually attractive girl or young woman
- Finnish: nymfetti — A sexually attractive girl or young woman
- French: nymphette — A sexually attractive girl or young woman
- Greek: νυμφίδιο (nymfídio) — A sexually attractive girl or young woman
- Japanese: 美少女 (bishōjo) — A sexually attractive girl or young woman
- Japanese: ロリータ (rorīta) — A sexually attractive girl or young woman
- Korean: 님펫 (nimpet) — A sexually attractive girl or young woman
- Portuguese: ninfeta — A sexually attractive girl or young woman
- Russian: нимфе́тка (nimfétka) — A sexually attractive girl or young woman
- Spanish: nínfula — A sexually attractive girl or young woman
- Swedish: lammkött — A sexually attractive girl or young woman