1. In Greek Mythology, a nymph who was the daughter of Oceanus; i. e., nymph presiding over the ocean.
2. More broadly, the Oceanids in Greek and Roman mythology were the three-thousand sons and daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. Each one was the patron of a particular spring, river, lake or pond. Each body of water had an Oceanid assigned to it.
Oceanids:
- Achelous
- Acheron
- Alpheus
- Amaltheia
- Amphitrite
- Asia
- Asopus
- Callirhoe
- Catillus
- Cebren
- Cephissus
- Circe
- Clitunno (Roman mythology)
- Clymene
- Crinisus
- Dione
- Doris
- Electra
- Enipeus
- Eurynome
- Inachus
- Lysithea
- Melia
- Meliboea
- Merope
- Nilus
- Peneus
- Perse
- Philyra
- Pleione
- Rhode
- Scamander
- Telesto
- Tiberinus (Roman mythology)
- Tibertus (Roman mythology)
- Tyche
- Volturnus (Roman mythology)