werewolf Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again
    wolfman; loup-garou; lycanthrope.

WordNet

Were"wolf` noun
Etymology
AS. werwulf; wer a man + wulf a wolf; cf. G. wärwolf, währwolf, wehrwolf, a werewolf, MHG. werwolf. . See Were a man, and Wolf, and cf. Virile, World.
Wordforms
plural Werewolves
Definitions
  1. A person transformed into a wolf in form and appetite, either temporarily or permanently, whether by supernatural influences, by witchcraft, or voluntarily; a lycanthrope. Belief in werewolves, formerly general, is not now extinct.
    The werwolf went about his prey. William of Palerne.
    The brutes that wear our form and face, The werewolves of the human race. Longfellow.

Webster 1913