Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person believed to have been transformed into a wolf or to be capable of assuming the form of a wolf.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. etc. See werwolf, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to transform during a full moon.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A person transformed into a wolf in form and appetite, either temporarily or permanently, whether by supernatural influences, by witchcraft, or voluntarily; a lycanthrope. Belief in werewolves, formerly general, is not now extinct.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old English werewulf : wer, man; see wī-ro- in Indo-European roots + wulf, wolf; see wolf.
Examples
“Transforming into a werewolf is a painful, guilt-ridden ritual.”
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“Unfortunately for him, making fun of someone who turns out to be a werewolf is a bad thing.”
“Harry Potter – Remus Lupin werewolf variant mini bust – GentleGiantLtd. com”
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“ALEXIA: Did I mention that my touch instantly cancels out supernatural abilities, so that if, for example, I were to touch you in werewolf form at full moon, you would become human?”
“I'm always up for a good monster movie, but when I go home, I'm not really worried that a werewolf is going to attack me or that Gary Oldman in a top hat is going to offer me absinthe and bite my neck.”
“The werewolf is George, who is Jewish and worries that being a werewolf isn't kosher.”
“(From Borders. com) Ulf the werewolf is training to become an official agent for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Beasts (RSPCB).”
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“There's a ye olde village, a werewolf is killing people.”
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“When the vampire invites fellow apartment tenants for tea, the sometimes-werewolf is exasperated at his lack of protocol: They're British.”
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“Plus, we think a vicious werewolf is probably more appealing to a guy than a lovey-dovey vampire.”
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Louises The hunger, in its vicious simplicity, teaches you how to be a werewolf. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
Apr 1, 2012
milosrdenstvi The etymology is pretty cool -- relation to Latin vir never occurred to me before. Jan 19, 2010
skipvia Some Bavarian peasants having caught a wolf one evening, tied it to a post by the tail and went to bed. The next morning nothing was there! Greatly perplexed, they consulted the local priest, who told them that their captive was undoubtedly a werewolf and had resumed its human form during the night. "The next time that you take a wolf," the good man said, "see that you chain it by the leg, and in the morning you will find a Lutheran."
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Oct 14, 2007