Wolfe

[woolf]

noun

1. Charles, 1791–1823, Irish poet.

2. James, 1727–59, English general.

3. Thomas (Clayton) 1900–38, U.S. novelist.

4. Tom Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr., 1931–2018, U.S. novelist and journalist.

5. a male given name.

Wolfe

/ wʊlf /

noun

1. James. 1727–59, English soldier, who commanded the British capture of Quebec, in which he was killed

2. Thomas ( Clayton ). 1900–38, US novelist, noted for his autobiographical fiction, esp Look Homeward, Angel (1929)

3. Tom, full name Thomas Kennerly Wolfe. born 1931, US author and journalist; his books include The Right Stuff (1979) and the novels Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), and A Man in Full (1998)

Example Sentences

The OpenAI deal led analysts at Wolfe Research to upgrade AMD’s stock on Tuesday to outperform from peer perform.

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Quiet by nature and “very particular” in temperament, as Wolfe described him this winter, Sasaki tried to keep a steadfast routine.

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In a note to staff, chief executive Whitney Wolfe Herd said she was responding to pressures facing the company, as the dating industry faces an "inflection point".

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In George C. Wolfe’s revival, the character is a Black woman struggling not just with her frustrated dreams of stardom displaced onto her children but with the injustice of history itself.

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The Broadway performance that cut the deepest for me was Audra McDonald as Rose in George C. Wolfe’s revival of “Gypsy,” a harrowing reexamination of the musical through the historical prism of race.

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