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wolfe

Phoneticswolfe

/ˈwʊɫf/

Definitions

01a surname

B2

n. a common last name for people in English or German-speaking areas.

n. a surname of English or German origin, derived from the given name or the animal.

“The famous author Tom Wolfe wrote many influential books in the twentieth century.”

“The professor introduced Dr. Wolfe as the keynote speaker for the upcoming linguistics conference in Berlin.”

02the animal

C2

n. an old way of spelling the word 'wolf', a wild animal like a large dog.

n. an obsolete orthographic variant of 'wolf', referring to the carnivorous mammal Canis lupus.

“In the very old book, the hunter chased a large grey wolfe through the woods.”

“Scholars noted that the sixteenth-century manuscript consistently used the spelling 'wolfe' when describing the local fauna.”

Archaic

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