Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun wolf

5 senses of wolf

Sense 1
wolf -- (any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs)
       => canine, canid -- (any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles)

Sense 2
Wolf, Hugo Wolf -- (Austrian composer (1860-1903))
       INSTANCE OF=> composer -- (someone who composes music as a profession)

Sense 3
Wolf, Friedrich August Wolf -- (German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824))
       INSTANCE OF=> classicist, classical scholar -- (a student of ancient Greek and Latin)

Sense 4
wolf, woman chaser, skirt chaser, masher -- (a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women)
       => womanizer, womaniser, philanderer -- (a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them)

Sense 5
beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat -- (a cruelly rapacious person)
       => attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter -- (someone who attacks)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb wolf

1 sense of wolf

Sense 1
wolf, wolf down -- (eat hastily; "The teenager wolfed down the pizza")
       => eat -- (take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?")