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What is a nymph?

What is a nymph? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The larva of certain insects.
  2. (Greek and Roman mythology) Any minor female deity associated with water, forests, grotto, etc.
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The Greeks believed that every tree had its wood nymph and every river had its river god.
It glimmers with the image of the adjacent water nymph in steep foreshortening.
Once, however, Arethusa was not water or even a water nymph but a fair young huntress and a follower of Artemis.
There was a familiarity about her, this princess, this wood nymph, a familiarity he couldn't express or identify.
According to Greek myth, a nubile young wood nymph named Echo spied young Narcissus walking in the woods.
Are you some sort of water nymph, or mermaid, some seducing goddess, leading men into waters, and manipulating them at your will?

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