wolves

See also: Wolves

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: wo͝olvz, IPA^(key): /ˈwʊlvz/^[1]

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• enPR: wo͝ovz, IPA^(key): /ˈwʊvz/ (now nonstandard)^[1][2]
• Rhymes: -ʊlvz, -ʊvz

Noun

wolves

1. plural of wolf
2. (obsolete) genitive of wolf
   • 1679, Elisha Coles, A Dictionary, English-Latin, and Latin-English; […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Richardson, for George Sawbridg, T. Basset, John Wright, Richard Chiswell:

     Lŭpātus, a, um, Bridled with a ſharp bit, Sharp like a Wolves teeth.

   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Æsop, &c.] Fab[le] CLV. A Shepherd and a Wolves Whelp.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 139:

     Fab[le]. CLV. A Shepherd and a Wolves Whelp. A Shepherd took a Sucking Whelp of a Wolfe, and Train’d it up with his Dogs.

   • 1711, [Laurent] B[ordelon], translated by [unknown], A History of the Ridiculous Extravagancies of Monsieur Oufle; […], London: […] J. Morphew, […], page 44:

     […] for he remembred to have read, that if one of theſe Flowers gather’d in Auguſt, when the Sun is in Leo, and if after wrapp’d up in a Lawrel Leaf, with a Wolves Tooth, this little Pacquet be laid in a Church; […]

Verb

wolves

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of wolve

References

1. “wolves”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
2. Kristin Denham and Anne Lobeck, in Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction (2009), page 136

Anagrams

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