Word Helper: An Associative Language Search Engine

Words Described by "Elf"

  1. locks
  2. aquitaine
  3. king
  4. land
  5. child
  6. queen
  7. knight
  8. woman
  9. owl
  10. shot

Commonly Paired Adjectives

  1. little
  2. old
  3. young
  4. dark
  5. jolly
  6. mischievous
  7. half
  8. haired
  9. poor
  10. tiny

Hypernyms (Type of)

  1. fairy
  2. sprite
  3. faerie
  4. faery
  5. radio frequency

What Google Knows

An elf is a type of humanoid supernatural being in Germanic folklore. Elves appear especially in North Germanic mythology, being mentioned in the Icelandic Poetic Edda and Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.

Related Definition

  1. elf:

    n (Norse mythology) A luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of Álfheim (Elfland). Compare angel, nymph, fairy.

    n Any from a race of mythical, supernatural beings resembling but seen as distinct from human beings. They are usually delicate-featured and skilled in magic or spellcrafting; sometimes depicted as clashing with dwarves, especially in modern fantasy literature.

    n (fantasy) Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse álfar (through Tolkien's Eldar).

    n A very diminutive person; a dwarf.

    n (South Africa) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).

    v (now rare) To twist into elflocks (of hair); to mat.

    n (file format) Acronym of Executable and Linking Format (a common object file format for Unix)

    n (electronics) Initialism of extremely low frequency. [(electronics) The band of radio frequencies from 3 to 30 hertz]

    n (linguistics) Acronym of English as a Lingua Franca (English used by non-native speakers)

    n Initialism of Earth Liberation Front (a radical environmentalism group)

    n Initialism of Elvish Linguistic Fellowship (an organization that studies the invented languages of J. R. R. Tolkien)

    n Initialism of Endangered Language Fund (a non-profit organization)


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