Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Plural of elf.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Plural of elf.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources; extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec) electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km diameter) in the ionosphere
Examples
“Carole and Alaya also make provocative quotes about elves the former saying "..elves I have nothing to do with", while the latter concurs with "The world does not ever, ever need to see another damn elf".”
“The magic of the elves is a twilight thing, the sound of distant silver horns, a fairy gold that turns to dust by noonday, and it is meant to chide the pride of foolish mortal men.”
MIND MELD: Today's SF Authors Define Science Fiction (Part 2)
“Pratchett's take on the elves is appropriately sinister, as they have no qualms placing a glamour on people and making them do their bidding.”
“Well the existence of dragons and elves is the most common element in all fantasy fiction, so should we believe there really were dragons breathing fire at Elf rangers stalking through the woods of Lorien?”
Matthew Yglesias » Spitzer: Let’s Condemn the Human Race to Slavery and Extinction
“If you think the public is willing to cut back to that level, you probably believe in elves, too.”
Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Persistence of Carbon Tax Advocates
“What I am arriving at is that my dick is so big that a giant can use it to brain elves and frog-people.”
“Wait until the real dirt about Obama and his little elves is uncovered and then watch the Obama snow-job.”
“My lack of interest in elves led me to forgo not only most fantasy novels, but even the lesser investment of time required for fantasy movies.”
“But for the beautiful, fair creatures whom they called elves and fairies, the gods made a home somewhat above the earth, where they might live always among flowers and birds and butterflies.”
“There were giants from Norway and trolls from Sweden; there were dwarfs and elves from the mines of Cornwall and fairies from the hills of Ireland; there were brownies from Scotland and goblins from Germany; the Yule nisse and the skrattle from Denmark; and fairy godmothers from everywhere.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘elves’.
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Mythical Word List
All words with mythical connotations.
nymph, pixie, elf, elves, wizard, faerie, minotaur, unicorn, wand, witch, sprite, faun and 5 more...
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Carlos' Words
monstropolous, absquatulate
pinguid, triffid, calque, refulgent, monstropolous, Seanchaí, clinquant, Chryselephantine ..., peavey, milium, swage, Burtillon, Burtil... and 215 more...
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Scriptie: The Two Towers
dampen, treacherous, black gate, man-flesh, precious, elvish, dwarf, pursuit, quarry, hobbit, sprinters, horse lords and 236 more...
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Weather: Those Aren't Cats and Dogs!
Unusual weather and environmental phenomena.
parhelion, sun dog, weathergaw, ball lightning, green sun, ice bomb, slithering rocks, monster raindrops, megacryometeor, raining frogs, raining fish, dust devil and 108 more...
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Samme's Words
soliloquy, meander, creativity, magic, discovery, happiness, empowerment, abundance, [magnificent], iridescent, artistic, magical and 694 more...
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Scriptie: The Fellowship of the Ring
the world is changed, much that once wa..., great rings, immortal, dwarf lords, miners, craftsmen, three, seven, nine, deceived, dark lord and 216 more...
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Winter Solstice
Words that have something to do with the holidays that fall on or near the Winter Solstice
Yule, Yule-log, holly, yew, bay, bay-leaf, bayberry, Holly King, Oak King, mistletoe, Christmas tree, star in the East and 150 more...
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mkuo's Words
sigh, chum, clandestine, behemoth, paramour, leviathan, dollop, wastrel, pedantic, hankering, warble, lope and 317 more...
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Fantasies and Fairytales
unicorn, mermaid, achilles, mist, wizard, myth, thievery, mystical, quest, journey, castle, hovel and 37 more...
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Ruthlessly Pilfered "Things That Will...
Periodically found on Let's Panic About Babies. (Excellent site.)
integers, banjos, kitten teeth, pomeranians, matching clothing, cougars, rumi, motocross, sweat glands, cinnamon, poltergeists, ukrainians and 24 more...
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Words From Books
I know that all words are from books, but this list is for those words that make you think of a book or a place in a book when you read them.
unicorn, fairy, faerie, elves, muggle, hobbit, horcrux, shire, centaur, troll, dragon, dwarves and 10 more...
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Scriptie: Miller's Crossing
By the Coen brothers, 1990.
ethics, high hat, schnook, elves, schmatta, the fix, guinea, on the nose, greengrocer, bookie, protection money, rumpus and 80 more...
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My Enchanted Tree
by Trevor Duncan
enchanted, peculiar, represented, twinkling, gnomes, pixies, elves, beings, magnified, shrubs, glow, furnace and 2 more...
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Western European mythical creatures a...
barbegazi, xorguinae, wichtlein, poltergeist, ondine, undine, sylph, salamander, reaper, imp, guivre, gargoyle and 24 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for elves.

reesetee Er...yeah. That's it. Right. ;-> Sep 24, 2007
npydyuan Because you might get a shock, right? :-P Sep 24, 2007
reesetee Heehee! Yep, I thought of that when I read the definition.
There's also a weather phenomenon known as a sprite, but I'm not touching that one with a 20-foot pole. ;-> Sep 23, 2007
npydyuan "Elves last less than 1/1000th of a second."
Funny, I always thought they were immortal! Sep 23, 2007
reesetee In weather terminology, elves are huge bluish or white disks or cone-shaped light coming from the top of a thunderstorm. Some grow to be 250 miles or more in diameter and may extend 60 miles into the air. They are believed to be produced when electromagnetic pulses move through the ionosphere. The pulses could come from radio waves within the lightning flashes themselves. Elves last less than 1/1000th of a second. Sep 23, 2007
princesscenedra Not the short ones that you think of when you think Santa. The tall beautiful ones that are graceful and live in Middle Earth. Dec 2, 2006