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Definition: WEREWOLVES |
WEREWOLVESPlural1. Of Werewolf |
Crosswords: WEREWOLVES |
| Specialty definitions using "WEREWOLVES": Werewolf. (references) |
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Screenplays | Every story you've ever heard about vampires, werewolves, or aliens, is the system assimilating some program that's doing something they're not supposed to be doing. (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) Now I've got to deal with People for the Ethical Treatment of Werewolves. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) You hunt werewolves for sport? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Think you see werewolves a lot? (Ginger Snaps; writing credit: Karen Walton; John Fawcett) | |
Lyrics | Doing the werewolves of London (Werewolves of London; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: LeRoy P. Marinell, Waddy Wachtel and Warren Zevon) Werewolves of London again (Werewolves of London; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: LeRoy P. Marinell, Waddy Wachtel and Warren Zevon) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! (1972) Werewolves on Wheels (1971) | |
Song Titles | Werewolves of London (performing artist: Warren Zevon) | |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | WEREWOLF, n. A wolf that was once, or is sometimes, a man. All werewolves are of evil disposition, having assumed a bestial form to gratify a beastial appetite, but some, transformed by sorcery, are as humane and is consistent with an acquired taste for human flesh. 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 for 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." |
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| "WEREWOLVES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WEREWOLVES" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "WEREWOLVES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 狼人 (Werewolf). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Werwölfe. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | erewolvesway оборотень (turnskin, turn-skin, werewolf, werwolf). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-l-o-r-s-v-w-w" | |
-1 letter: werwolves. | |
-3 letters: oversee, oversew, releves, resolve, weevers, wolvers. | |
-4 letters: elvers, levees, levers, lovers, lowers, reeves, releve, resole, revels, rewove, rowels, severe, sleeve, slower, soever, solver, swerve, vowels, vowers, weever, wolver, wolves, wowser. | |
-5 letters: elver, elves, erose, ewers, leers, levee, lever, lores, loser, lover, loves, lower, lowes, lowse, orles, overs, reels, reeve, resee, resew, resow. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 45 52 45 57 4F 4C 56 45 53 |
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