wolfhound

Examples

• All

• Big enough for an Irish wolfhound—or a ten-year-old boy, as I knew from experience.

  Fiction book (1995)

• My Irish wolfhound is the largest dog in the neighborhood.

• - Your wolfhound and me are both Irish.

  The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

• Well, I had an Irish wolfhound named Peeve.

  Smosh Pit

• I want the wolfhound.

  Adam Resurrected (2008)

• The wolfhound must have been chasing a fox or a leopard cat that had come to steal chickens.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Inside, there were four real dogs, including two Irish wolfhounds whose collars were trimmed with bells and Christmas ribbon.

  Fiction book (2000)

• She took her wolfhound to the park, where it swiftly ran after a ball.

Synonyms

I

Irish wolfhound

vswolfhound

1 4.6

A very large dog from Ireland with rough thick fur used for hunting wolves

is the general very large breed term focusing on size rather than specific origin

R

Russian wolfhound

vswolfhound

1 7.0

A tall, long-haired dog from Russia bred to hunt wolves

is the broader very large breed idea stressing size rather than speed

Compounds

I

Irish wolfhound

1 4.6

A very large dog from Ireland with rough thick fur used for hunting wolves

R

Russian wolfhound

1 7.0

A tall, long-haired dog from Russia bred to hunt wolves

How Big

mastiff

7 4.1

wolfhound

3 5.3

Labrador

1 1.9

beagle

23 1.3

Chihuahua

11 3.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology