Lycanthrope Definition

līkən-thrōp, lī-kăn-
noun

Werewolf.

Webster's New World

A werewolf.

Wiktionary
A person affected with lycanthropy.
American Heritage Medicine
A human with a curse that causes involuntary shapeshifting.
Wiktionary
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Other Word Forms of Lycanthrope

Noun

Singular:
lycanthrope
Plural:
lycanthropes

Origin of Lycanthrope

  • Greek lukanthrōpos lukos wolf wl̥kwo- in Indo-European roots anthrōpos man

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek λυκάνθρωπος (lukanthrōpos).

    From Wiktionary

Lycanthrope Sentence Examples

  • The victim of a curse, he became a lycanthrope and was locked away in his cellar laboratory.

  • You do not even have to have been bitten by a lycanthrope in a misty forest where you have stupidly wandered.

  • Another way in which a demon is held to cause disease is by introducing itself into the patient's body and sucking his blood; the Malays believe that a woman who dies in childbirth becomes a langsuir and sucks the blood of children; victims of the lycanthrope are sometimes said to be done to death in the same way; and it is commonly believed in Africa that the wizard has the power of killing people in this way, probably with the aid of a familiar.

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