Definitions for dwarves

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Spelling: [dwawrvz]

IPA: /dwɔrvz/

Dwarves is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 196 anagrams from letters in dwarves (adersvw).

Definitions for dwarves

noun

1. a plural of dwarf.
2. a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
3. an animal or plant much smaller than the average of its kind or species.
4. (in folklore) a being in the form of a small, often misshapen and ugly, man, usually having magic powers.
5. Astronomy. dwarf star.

adjective

1. of unusually small stature or size; diminutive.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to appear or seem small in size, extent, character, etc., as by being much larger or better:
2. to make dwarf or dwarfish; prevent the due development of.

verb (used without object)

1. to become stunted or smaller.

Origin of dwarves

before 900; Middle English dwerf, Old English dweorh; replacing Middle English dwerg, Old English dweorg; cognate with Old High German twerg, Old Norse dvergr

Examples for dwarves

You almost wish Tolkien had stopped with six dwarves [laughs].

dwarves and mine-men went about, unfailingly, with a purseful of gold.

Still, we had the 13 dwarves to deal with, but at least in this movie we get to knock a couple off, which is a relief.

While the camera pans towards him in the hallway, along the wall is an image of Dopey from Snow White and the Seven dwarves.

“The police were forced into arresting thousands of dwarves,” Flood said.

Smaug, of course, is the dragon who stole the dwarves land from Thorin and his forefathers.

The Black Elves will serve as our general name for dwarves and mine-fairies.

And the dwarves, and fays, and fairies all alike have gone away.

Waving his long arms, he towered over the men milling around him like a giant commanding an army of dwarves.

The “seven dwarves” is a political “diss” from the 1988 Democratic primary.