wolf
- noun
- /wʊlf/
- During the night, a wolf howled in the distance, signaling its presence to the pack.
- pack of wolves
- wolves kill
- wolves hunt
Our class animal, we're wolves, so we got some T-shirts.
- Our class animal, we're wolves, so we got some T-shirts.
- And when I saw your video, I instantly saw a wolf and wolves.
- Sun shower, The wolf is giving birth.
- The soul howls like a wolf that's lost one leg in the trap.
- There's there's sheep, there's wolves and then there's wolves that eat wolves, right?
- I wake up, he goes, did you see two wolves out here fighting?
- So we have like, you know, dogs or wolves, I guess Co evolved.
- We were just like a bunch of wolves and and I.
- So we got three kinds of wolf creatures now.
Examples
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There are wolves in national parks, wolves on farms, and wolves in suburbs.
Academic text (1996) -
But we pulled up to this wolf reserve and it was awesome.
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Actually, it was a wolf that wanted to eat me.
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Will there be wolves in the forest?
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We wolves are needed in the forest as much as you are needed by people.
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There are many issues with wolf conservation or reintroduction.
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In all likelihood, the killings were simply the work of a wolf or pack of wolves, says Smith.
Academic text (2011) -
The standoff suddenly ended when the wolves disappeared, leaving as silently as they had come.
Fiction book (1990) -
According to these sources, the wolf renders a man mute by merely gazing at him.
Academic text (1996) -
The documentary highlighted the importance of wolves in maintaining the ecosystem by hunting large herbivores.
Synonyms
A large wild animal like a dog with gray fur that lives in forests and often hunts in packs
A large wild wolf that lives in North American forests and has grey fur
An old word for the wild animal wolf
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
A person who seems friendly but is actually dangerous or dishonest
- Archaic
You are in a dangerous situation where giving up is as risky as staying
Compounds
- US
A large wild animal like a dog with gray fur that lives in forests and often hunts in packs
A large spider that hunts on the ground and runs to catch other animals instead of using webs
- Specialized
A white wolf that lives in Arctic North America and has a black-tipped tail
- US
A small wild animal that looks like a dog from western North America, often called a coyote
- South African
A wild dog-like animal from northern Africa related to jackals and wolves
A large spider from southern Europe once thought to make people dance uncontrollably
A large wild dog from South America with long legs, reddish fur and long hair along its neck
- Australian
A type of animal from Tasmania that looks like a dog, has stripes on its back, and is now extinct
- South African
A wild animal like a hyena that eats dead animals and lives in southern Africa
How Dangerous
Surface Forms
Etymology
Wolf comes from the old English word wulf and is the same word you still see in German Wolf, so it has always named the wild, dog-like animal known for hunting in packs.