"were-wolf" meaning in Anglais

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Animaux imaginaires en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Formes de noms communs en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anglais",
      "orig": "anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "were-wolves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Forme de nom commun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "werewolf"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Animaux imaginaires en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Créatures mythologiques en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Lexique en français du fantastique",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Bram Stoker, Dracula : Jonathan Harker’s Journal, chapitre I, Modern Library, New York, New York, 1897",
          "text": "I must say they were not cheering to me, for amongst them were “Ordog”—Satan, “pokol”—hell, “stregoica”—witch, “vrolok” and “vlkoslak”—both of which mean the same thing, one being Slovak and the other Servian for something that is either were-wolf or vampire."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Matthew Beresford, White Devil, 2013, ISBN 1780232055, page 118",
          "text": "For its part, the vivid imagery of Servian folklore states that 'the power to become a were-wolf is obtained by drinking the water which settles in a foot-print left in the clay by a wolf.'"
        },
        {
          "ref": "Henry Fanshawe Tozer⁽ᵉⁿ⁾, A History of Ancient Geography, 2014, ISBN 1108078753, page 86",
          "text": "This fancy Herodotus regards with incredulity, but his mention of it is none the less valuable, for the were-wolf is a figure which constantly appears in modern folk-lore."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Sabine Baring-Gould, The Book of Were-Wolves, 2017",
          "text": "If traditions of were-wolves are scanty in England, it is quite the reverse if we cross the water."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Variante orthographique de werewolf, loup-garou."
      ],
      "id": "fr-were-wolf-en-noun-8MXVmpgV",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Fantastique"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "mythology",
        "zoology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "form-of"
  ],
  "word": "were-wolf"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Animaux imaginaires en anglais",
    "Formes de noms communs en anglais",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "were-wolves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Forme de nom commun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "werewolf"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Animaux imaginaires en anglais",
        "Créatures mythologiques en anglais",
        "Exemples en anglais",
        "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
        "Lexique en français du fantastique"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Bram Stoker, Dracula : Jonathan Harker’s Journal, chapitre I, Modern Library, New York, New York, 1897",
          "text": "I must say they were not cheering to me, for amongst them were “Ordog”—Satan, “pokol”—hell, “stregoica”—witch, “vrolok” and “vlkoslak”—both of which mean the same thing, one being Slovak and the other Servian for something that is either were-wolf or vampire."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Matthew Beresford, White Devil, 2013, ISBN 1780232055, page 118",
          "text": "For its part, the vivid imagery of Servian folklore states that 'the power to become a were-wolf is obtained by drinking the water which settles in a foot-print left in the clay by a wolf.'"
        },
        {
          "ref": "Henry Fanshawe Tozer⁽ᵉⁿ⁾, A History of Ancient Geography, 2014, ISBN 1108078753, page 86",
          "text": "This fancy Herodotus regards with incredulity, but his mention of it is none the less valuable, for the were-wolf is a figure which constantly appears in modern folk-lore."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Sabine Baring-Gould, The Book of Were-Wolves, 2017",
          "text": "If traditions of were-wolves are scanty in England, it is quite the reverse if we cross the water."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Variante orthographique de werewolf, loup-garou."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "Fantastique"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "mythology",
        "zoology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "form-of"
  ],
  "word": "were-wolf"
}