Werewolf
/ˈwɛəɹwʊlf/ noun
noun ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to do so during a full moon.
"Near-synonym: dogman"
- 2 a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again wordnet
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples""Oh, right, you're a werewolf, aren't you?" "I'm mixed blood, so I don't transform or anything.""
Etymology
From Middle English werwolf, from Old English werewulf, from Proto-West Germanic *werawulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wer (“man”) + *wulf (“wolf”). Cognate with Dutch weerwolf, Low German Warwulf, German Werwolf, Danish varulv, Swedish varulv, and even possibly Finnish vironsusi. By surface analysis, were- + wolf. * Compare French garou in loup-garou; French dialectal gairou, varou (“werewolf”); Medieval Latin gerulphus, garulphus (“werewolf”); all from Germanic, probably Frankish *werawulf.