Were Definition

wʉr

verb

Webster's New World

Second-person singular simple past tense indicative of be.

John, you were the only person to see him.

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Simple imperfect subjunctive in all persons of be.

I wish that it were Sunday.

I wish that I were with you.

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(Northern England) Was.

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noun

(archaic) Man (human male), as in werewolf (“man-wolf").

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(fandom slang) The collective name for any kind of person that changes into another form under certain conditions, including the werewolf.

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prefix

Man; prefix most commonly used with animal names to indicate a person who changes shape into that animal.

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Other Word Forms of Were

Singular:

were

Plural:

weres

Back-formation from werewolf (“man-wolf"), from Old English werwulf, derived from wer (“man"), from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós (“man") + wulf (“wolf").

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Old English wer, from Proto-Germanic *weraz, from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós (“man").

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Old English wÇ£re.

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