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WEREWOLVES

Definition: WEREWOLVES

WEREWOLVES

Plural

1. Of Werewolf

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: WEREWOLVES

Specialty definitions using "WEREWOLVES": Werewolf. (references)

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Modern Usage: WEREWOLVES

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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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: WEREWOLVES

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Books

  • Children of the Night: Stories of Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolves, and "Lost Children" (The Children of the Night) (reference)

  • Merlin's Tour of the Universe: A Skywatcher's Guide to Everything from Mars and Quasars to Comets, Planets, Blue Moons, and Werewolves (reference)

  • The Mystery of Vampires and Werewolves (Can Science Solve) (reference)

  • Werewolves (reference)

  • Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: WEREWOLVES

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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."

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: WEREWOLVES

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%9117,287

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: WEREWOLVES

Language Translations for "WEREWOLVES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

狼人 (Werewolf). (various references)

   

German

  

Werwölfe. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

erewolvesway

   

Russian 

  

оборотень (turnskin, turn-skin, werewolf, werwolf). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: WEREWOLVES

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: WEREWOLVES


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 45 52 45 57 4F 4C 56 45 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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