Princeton's WordNet

1. wolf(noun)

   any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs

2. Wolf, Hugo Wolf(noun)

   Austrian composer (1860-1903)

3. Wolf, Friedrich August Wolf(noun)

   German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)

4. wolf, woman chaser, skirt chaser, masher(noun)

   a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women

5. beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat(verb)

   a cruelly rapacious person

6. wolf, wolf down(verb)

   eat hastily

   "The teenager wolfed down the pizza"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

1. wolf(noun)ɔlf

   a large dog-like wild animal

   wolves howling in the night

2. wolf(verb)ɔlf

   to eat very quickly

   The kids wolfed down their food.

Wiktionary

1. wolf(Noun)

   A large wild canid (member of the dog family), closely related to, and at times consanguineous to the domestic dog, which is considered a subspecies of the wolf.

2. wolf(Noun)

   A man who makes amorous advances on many women.

3. wolf(Noun)

   A wolf tone or wolf note; an unpleasant tone produced when a note matches the natural resonating frequency of the body of a musical instrument, the quality of which may be likened to the howl of a wolf.

   This cello has a terrible wolf on the D string around 'F'.

4. wolf(Verb)

   To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.

5. Wolf(ProperNoun)

   The constellation Lupus.

Origin: from wulf, from wulfaz, from wĺ̥kʷos; akin to , گرگ, vilkas, , ujk, lupus.

Webster Dictionary

1. Wolf(adj)

   any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man

2. Wolf(adj)

   one of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf

3. Wolf(adj)

   fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door

4. Wolf(adj)

   a white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries

5. Wolf(adj)

   an eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus

6. Wolf(adj)

   the harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament

7. Wolf(adj)

   in bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale

8. Wolf(adj)

   a willying machine

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