dryade
French, noun/dʁi.jad/
dryade is spelled D-R-Y-A-D-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 113,280th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dryade is a French feminine noun meaning “dryad” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nymphe protectrice des arbres et des bois”.
What does dryade mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedryad
- 2
feminineforest tree, sciaphilous in young state
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nymphe protectrice des arbres et des bois. 2. Espèce d'arbres se développant dans l'ombre des forêts, de longue durée de vie et liée au climax, comme les sapins, les hêtres et les chênes. 3. Dryas, genre d’arbrisseaux orophiles de la famille des Rosaceae. 4. L’espèce Dryas octopetala, la dryade à huit pétales.
noun: 1. Nymphe associée aux arbres et aux forêts, vivant en étroite relation avec le milieu naturel qu’elle protège.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of dryade
- dryades plural
- Dryades plural
- dryade
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dryade?
- /dʁi.jad/
- \dʁi.jad\
- [dʁi.jad]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dryade
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dryade in French?
dryade appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).