Wolf

Quick meaning: Wolf is a noun meaning (countable) Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.

Meaning

(countable) Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.

More Meanings

1. A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
2. (music) A wolf tone or wolf note.
3. (figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
4. One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
5. A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.
6. A wolf spider (Lycosidae spp.).
7. (obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.

Example Sentences

the bee wolf

They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.

The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves.

If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side

Word Forms

• wolves
• wolfs
• wolfing
• wolfed
• wolve

Synonyms for wolf

Depending on context, synonyms include loafer, lobo, lofer, loper, lover, brute.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wildcat, beast, masher, savage, brute, coyote.

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