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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A person believed to have been transformed into a wolf or to be capable of assuming the form of wolf.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. etc. See werwolf, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. n. mythology 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

  1. 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

  1. n. a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again

Etymologies

  1. Late Old English werewulf, from wer ("man") + wulf ("wolf"). Other theories have been suggested; see Werewolf: Etymology. Cognate to garou in French loup-garou ("werewolf"), from Old French warous, from Frankish wari wulf. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English werewulf : wer, man; + wulf, wolf; see wolf. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (3)

Words with the same meaning

  1. lycanthrope
  1. loup-garou
  1. wolfman

hypernyms (2)

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  1. mythical monster
  1. mythical creature

same context (24)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. vampire
  2. vamp
  3. zombie
  4. troll
  1. ghoul
  2. goblin
  3. unicorn
  4. wolf
  1. witch
  2. demon
  3. killer
  4. drow
  1. ogre
  2. leopard
  3. cop
  4. sorcerer
  1. magician
  2. necromancer
  3. coyote
  4. shapeshifter
  1. wereleopard
  2. ape
  3. cannibal
  4. mutie

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. lycanthropy
  1. lycanthrope
  1. loup-garou
  1. werwolf
  1. wehrwolf
  1. were-jaguar

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  1. monster
  1. fey
  1. narnia
  1. were-wolf

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Words tagged ‘werewolf’

  1. loup-garou
  1. lycanthrope
  1. lycanthropic
  1. lycanthropy

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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

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