WOLFE

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• WOLFE (noun)
  The noun WOLFE has 2 senses:

1. United States writer who has written extensively on American culture (born in 1931)

2. United States writer best known for his autobiographical novels (1900-1938)

  Familiarity information: WOLFE used as a noun is rare.

• WOLFE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States writer who has written extensively on American culture (born in 1931)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr.; Thomas Wolfe; Tom Wolfe; Wolfe

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States writer best known for his autobiographical novels (1900-1938)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Thomas Clayton Wolfe; Thomas Wolfe; Wolfe

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

 Context examples 

A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and when I draw up the curtain this time, reader, you must fancy you see a room in the George Inn at Millcote, with such large figured papering on the walls as inn rooms have; such a carpet, such furniture, such ornaments on the mantelpiece, such prints, including a portrait of George the Third, and another of the Prince of Wales, and a representation of the death of Wolfe.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)