Definitions for elves

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Spelling: [elvz]

IPA: /ɛlvz/

Elves is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in elves (eelsv).

Definitions for elves

noun

1. plural of elf.
2. (in folklore) one of a class of preternatural beings, especially from mountainous regions, with magical powers, given to capricious and often mischievous interference in human affairs, and usually imagined to be a diminutive being in human form; sprite; fairy.
3. a diminutive person, especially a child.
4. a mischievous person, especially a child.
5. an extremely dim, flattened, expanding, reddish glow briefly seen over a thunderstorm, due to electromagnetic pulses from intense lightning.

Origin of elves

before 1000; Middle English, back formation from elven, Old English elfen nymph (i.e., female elf), variant of ælfen; see elfin

Examples for elves

The elves send Buddy off on an adventure to big, bad New York City to meet his family and start a new life.

"elves" they were called, and they were thought of as a cleanly and kindly race.

One episode, for example, centered on a Christmas-themed “celebration,” complete with elves and reindeer.

So the elves in the Woodland Realm were an obvious [choice].

Wild Robin was safe, and the elves had lost their power over him forever.

That Santa told tellers he needed the money to “pay his elves.”

In English the words Fairies and elves are used without any distinction.

At his birth the elves and the fairies were summoned together.

He invoked the spirit of his mother; he brought together an assembly of elves and goblins.

The elves, and nixies and sprites, of all colors and many forms were on hand.