Definitions for wolfwʊlf

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. wolf(noun)


  2. Wolf, Hugo Wolf(noun)

    Austrian composer (1860-1903)

  3. Wolf, Friedrich August Wolf(noun)


  4. wolf, woman chaser, skirt chaser, masher(noun)

    a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women

  5. beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat(verb)

    a cruelly rapacious person

  6. wolf, wolf down(verb)

    eat hastily

    "The teenager wolfed down the pizza"


  1. wolf(Noun)

    A large wild canid (member of the dog family), closely related to, and at times consanguineous to the domestic dog, which is considered a subspecies of the wolf.

  2. wolf(Noun)

    A man who makes amorous advances on many women.

  3. wolf(Noun)



  4. wolf(Verb)

    To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.

  5. Wolf(ProperNoun)

    The constellation Lupus.

  6. Origin: from wulf, from wulfaz, from wĺ̥kʷos; akin to , گرگ, vilkas, , ujk, lupus.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Wolf(adj)


  2. Wolf(adj)


  3. Wolf(adj)


  4. Wolf(adj)

    a white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries

  5. Wolf(adj)

    an eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus

  6. Wolf(adj)


  7. Wolf(adj)

    in bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale

  8. Wolf(adj)

    a willying machine

  9. Origin: [OE. wolf, wulf, AS. wulf; akin to OS. wulf, D. & G. wolf, Icel. lfr, Sw. ulf, Dan. ulv, Goth. wulfs, Lith. vilkas, Russ. volk', L. lupus, Gr. ly`kos, Skr. vka; also to Gr. "e`lkein to draw, drag, tear in pieces. 286. Cf. Lupine, a., Lyceum.]


  1. Wolf


Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Wolf

    woolf, n. the common name of certain species of the genus Canis—including the ravenous Common Wolf, the Abyssinian Wolf, the Antarctic Wolf, the Maned Wolf, and the Prairie Wolf or Coyote: anything very ravenous: a greedy and cunning person: (obs.) a tuberculous excrescence: (mus.) a harsh discord heard in the organ, &c.:—pl. Wolves.—v.i. to hunt for wolves.—v.t. (slang) to devour ravenously.—ns. Wolf′-dog, a dog of large breed kept to guard sheep, esp. against wolves; Wol′fer, one who hunts wolves; Wolf′-fish, a fierce and voracious salt-water fish—called also Sea-wolf and Cat-fish; Wolf′-hound (see Borzoi); Wol′fing, the hunting of wolves for their skins.—adjs. Wol′fish, Wol′vish, like a wolf either in form or quality: rapacious.—adv. Wol′fishly.—ns. Wolf′kin, Wolf′ling, a young wolf; Wolf's′-bane, aconite; Wolf's′-foot, -claw, the club-moss Lycopodium; Wolf′-skin, the skin or pelt of a wolf; Wolf's′-peach, the tomato; Wolf′-spī′der, the tarantula; Wolf′-tooth, a small supernumerary premolar in a horse.—Cry wolf, to give a false alarm—from the story of the boy who cried 'Wolf' when there was none, and was not believed when there was one; Have a wolf by the ears, to be in a very difficult situation; Have a wolf in the stomach, to be ravenously hungry; Keep the wolf from the door, to keep out hunger; See a wolf, to lose one's voice, in allusion to an old superstition. [A.S. wulf; Ger. wolf; L. lupus; Gr. lykos.]

British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'wolf' in Nouns Frequency: #2739

Anagrams for wolf »

  1. flow fowl

  2. Flow

  3. Fowl


  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of wolf in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of wolf in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

  1. Guillaume Chapron:

    Maybe the wolf is your black bear.

  2. Usama Shami:

    We are always concerned about lone wolf attacks.

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  4. Charles de LEUSSE:


  5. Virgil:

    It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.

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