Lycanthrope

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A werewolf.
  • n. A person affected with lycanthropy.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A werewolf.
  • n. A human with a curse that causes involuntary shapeshifting.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A human being fabled to have been changed into a wolf; a werewolf.
  • n. One affected with lycanthropy.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A man superstitiously supposed to be possessed of the power of transforming himself at pleasure into a wolf, and to be endowed while in that shape with its savage propensities; a were-wolf.
  • n. A person affected with lycanthropy; one who imagines himself to be a wolf, and acts in conformity with his delusion.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    mythical monster    mythical creature   
    Cross Reference
    wererat    wereboar    weretiger    werewolf    werebear   
    Form
    lycanthropy   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    werewolf   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    shapeshifter    wereleopard    handlike    mailbomb    fface   
     
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