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Beowulfs

Beowulfs is the plural of Beowulf.

Meaning of Beowulf

Proper noun

Beowulf (plural Beowulfs)

  1. A renowned Old English alliterative poem, preserved in a single manuscript within the Nowell Codex, composed sometime between 975 and 1025 AD.
    • John Gardner’s retelling of Beowulf is titled Grendel.
  2. (poetic) An Anglo-Saxon personal name, usually with reference to the hero of the poem, or to the poem itself.
    • Beowulf is as great a hero as Sigmund.

Questions about Beowulfs

What is Beowulfs the plural of?
Beowulfs is the plural of Beowulf.

Words near Beowulfs in the dictionary

  1. Beowulf
  2. Beowulf cluster
  3. Beowulf clusters
  4. Beowulfian
  5. Beowulfiana
  6. Beowulfs
  7. BEP
  8. bepafant
  9. bepaint
  10. bepainted
  11. bepainting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Beowulfs (page history and authors); Beowulf (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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