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wolf-children

wolf-children is the plural of wolf-child.

Meaning of wolf-child

Noun

wolf-child (plural wolf-children)

  1. A human child that has been raised by wolves from infancy.
    • Mr. Neilson also adds that a jemidar told him that when he was a lad he remembered going with others to see a wolf-child which had been netted.1898 January, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, Philadelphia, page 121
  2. A being that is part wolf, part child.
    • Odin watched the wolf-child grow with foreboding, for in his dreams the wolf had been there at the end of everything[.]2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 78
  3. (literary) A baby or young wolf.

Questions about wolf-children

What is wolf-children the plural of?
Wolf-children is the plural of wolf-child.

Words near wolf-children in the dictionary

  1. wolf's-fists
  2. wolf's-foot
  3. wolf's-milk
  4. wolf-cat
  5. wolf-child
  6. wolf-children
  7. wolf-dog
  8. wolf-dogs
  9. wolf-fish
  10. wolf-fishes
  11. wolf-grey

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