wolves
See also: Wolves
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: wo͝olvz, IPA(key): /ˈwʊlvz/[1]
Audio (US) (file) - enPR: wo͝ovz, IPA(key): /ˈwʊvz/ (now nonstandard)[1][2]
- Rhymes: -ʊlvz, -ʊvz
Noun edit
wolves
- plural of wolf
- (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 edit
wolves
- third-person singular simple present indicative of wolve
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “wolves”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ Kristin Denham and Anne Lobeck, in Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction (2009), page 136