wolf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wo͝olf
ipa: /wʊlf/
ipa: /wʊlf/
ipa: [wʊɫf]
ipa: [wɵɫf]
ipa: [wʟ̩ːf]
ipa: /wʊlf/
ipa: [wʊwf]
ipa: /wʉlf/
enpr: wo͝of
ipa: /wʊf/
enpr: wŭlf
ipa: /wʌlf/
rhymes: -ʊlf
Forms: form: wolves
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English wolf, from Old English wulf, ƿulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. See also Saterland Frisian Wulf, West Frisian and Dutch wolf, German Wolf, Norwegian and Danish ulv; also Sanskrit वृक (vṛ́ka), Persian گرگ (gorg), Lithuanian vilkas, Russian волк (volk), Albanian ujk, Latin lupus, Greek λύκος (lýkos), Tocharian B walkwe. Doublet of lobo and lupus.
Senses: examples: text: He would listen quietly at meetings of the Politburo, or to distinguished visitors, puffing at his Dunhill pipe, doodling aimlessly - his secretaries Poskrebyshev and Dvinsky write that his pads were sometimes covered with the phrase ‘Lenin-teacher-friend’, but the last foreigner to visit him, in February 1953, noted that he was doodling wolves.
ref: 1968, Robert Conquest, “The Purge Begins”, in The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 74:
synonyms: grey wolf
glosses: Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
synonyms: grey wolf
glosses: Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis.
glosses: A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
examples: text: The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A wolf tone or wolf note.
examples: text: They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
text: the bee wolf
text: “[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 85:
glosses: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
glosses: One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
glosses: A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.
glosses: A wolf spider.
examples: text: If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
glosses: An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
examples: text: The loosening and purifying of the raw cotton from the various impurities , such as sand, grit, &c., is accomplished by beating with the hand, or by the Wolf machine, by means of a cylinder, the surface of which is covered with sharp iron teeth
ref: 1872, Johann Rudolph von Wagner, A handbook of Chemical Technology:
glosses: A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.
Synonyms: word: loafer
word: lobo
word: lofer
word: loper
word: lover
Hypernyms: sense: large wild canid
word: Canis lupus
sense: large wild canid
word: canid
Hyponyms: sense: large wild canid
word: she-wolf
sense: large wild canid
word: wolfess
sense: Canis lupus
word: Abyssinian wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Alaskan tundra wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Alexander Archipelago wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Alsatian wolf dog
sense: Canis lupus
word: Antarctic wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Apennine wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Arctic wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: arctic wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Bernard's wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Chinese wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Ethiopian wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Eurasian wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: European wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Ezo wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Falkland Islands wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Falkland Island wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Florida black wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Great Plains wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Greenland wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Gregory's wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: grey wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: gray wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Himalayan wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Hokkaido wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Honshu wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Iberian wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Indian wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Interior Alaskan wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Iranian wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Italian wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Japanese wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Manitoba wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Mexican wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: mountain wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: painted wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: polar wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: prairie wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Sakhalin wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Taimyr wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Tasmanian wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: Tibetan wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: timber wolf
sense: Canis lupus
word: tundra wolf
Coordinate terms: sense: large wild canid
word: dingo
sense: large wild canid
english: members of Canis lupus not called wolf
translation: members of Canis lupus not called wolf
word: dog
sense: large wild canid
word: coyote
sense: large wild canid
word: jackal
sense: large wild canid
english: other canids
translation: other canids
word: fox
Derived terms: word: aard-wolf
word: aphid wolf
word: Arctic wolf spider
word: Big Bad Wolf
word: brush wolf
word: buy wolf tickets
word: cry wolf
word: Desertas wolf spider
word: dire wolf
word: eastern wolf
word: Futsing wolf snake
word: ghost wolf
word: have the wolf by the ear
word: he-wolf
word: hungry like the wolf
word: keep the wolf from the door
word: like a wolf on the fold
word: lone wolf
english: town
translation: town
word: Lone Wolf
word: maned wolf
word: man is a wolf to man
word: man-wolf
word: mer-wolf
word: rabid wolf spider
word: raised by wolves
word: red wolf
word: rye wolf
word: sea wolf
taxonomic: Anarhichas lupus
word: seawolf
word: a wolf
word: sell wolf tickets
word: she-wolf
word: the wolf is at the door
word: the wolf may lose his teeth but never his nature
word: tiger wolf
word: were wolf
word: werewolf
word: were-wolf
word: wher-wolf
word: white wolf
word: who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl
word: wolf at the door
word: wolf back
word: wolf call
word: wolf-cat
word: wolf-child
word: wolf cub
word: wolf cut
word: wolf dog
word: wolf down
word: wolf eel
word: wolf eliminator
word: wolfess
word: wolf father
word: wolffish
word: wolf-fish
word: wolf-grey
word: wolf guarding the sheep
word: wolf herring
word: wolf hook
word: wolf-hunter
word: wolfie
word: wolf in a lamb's skin
word: wolf in one's belly
word: wolf in one's stomach
word: wolf in sheep's clothing
word: wolf interval
word: wolf in wool
word: wolfish
word: wolf jump
word: wolf lichen
word: wolflike
word: wolf moon
word: wolf-mother
word: wolf net
word: wolf of Wall Street
word: wolf-pack
word: wolf pack
word: wolf packing
word: Wolf Point
word: wolf pup
word: wolf snake
word: wolf ticket
word: wolf tone
word: wolf tooth
word: wolf tree
word: wolf up
word: wolf warrior
word: wolf-whelp
word: wolf whelp
word: wolf whistle
word: wolf-whistle
word: wolf willow
word: wolf worm
word: wolfy
word: wolven
word: zebra wolf