océanide
French, noun
océanide is spelled O-C-É-A-N-I-D-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 85 million words in written French, the 288,492nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Océanide is a French feminine noun meaning “alternative letter-case form of Océanide” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Océanide is a different word: “Oceanid”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nymphe de la mer et des eaux, filles d’Océan et de Téthys, au nombre de trois mille”.
What does océanide mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininealternative letter-case form of Océanide
noun
- 1
feminineOceanid
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nymphe de la mer et des eaux, filles d’Océan et de Téthys, au nombre de trois mille.
noun: 1. Chacune des nymphes, filles du Titan Océan et de la Titanide Téthys, associées aux eaux, aux sources, aux rivières ou aux mers.
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 océanide
- océanides plural
- Océanides plural
- océanide alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is océanide in French?
océanide appears about once in every 85 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).