Woolf

American  

[woolf] / wʊlf /

noun

1. Virginia Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf, 1882–1941, English novelist, essayist, and critic.

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Woolf British  

/ wʊlf /

noun

1. Leonard Sidney. 1880–1969, English publisher and political writer

2. his wife, Virginia . 1882–1941, English novelist and critic. Her novels, which include Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), The Waves (1931), and Between the Acts (1941), employ such techniques as the interior monologue and stream of consciousness

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Example Sentences

Virginia Woolf then got into the act, criticizing the BBC Home Service as middlebrow, despite its newsreaders’ plummy Oxbridge accents.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

As for Woolf, her status as a feminist heroine may be somewhat dimmed by the fact that she was a terrific snob.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

Far from luxuriating in a serene and pristine writing environment, Ms. Lewin reveals, Woolf worked amid “old nibs, bits of string, used matches, rusty paper-clips, crumpled envelopes, broken cigarette-holders, etc.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

A sea view which inspired the writer Virginia Woolf will be obscured by the development of a block of flats.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

The article speculated that the stewards’ “secret investigation” may have revealed “the identity of the race figure who gave Woolf his orders,” but that the officials were not telling the public.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand