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1. (n.) vampire
(in E European folklore) a corpse, animated by an undeparted soul or a demon, that periodically leaves the grave and disturbs the living.
2. vampire
any of various popular or literary representations of the folkloric vampire, typically a being that sucks the blood of sleeping persons at night.
3. vampire
a person who preys ruthlessly upon others.
4. vampire
a woman who seduces and exploits men.
Etymology: (1725–35; (< F) < G Vampir < Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr)
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| Definition of 'vampire' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) vampire, lamia
(folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living
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1. (noun) vampire
an imaginary being that drinks human blood
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) vampire
a blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730
2. (noun) vampire
fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker
3. (noun) vampire
either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored
4. (noun) vampire
any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially V. spectrum. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. vampire
the ghost of a dead person accursed, fabled to issue from the grave at night and suck the blood of the living as they sleep, the victims of whom are subject to the same fate; the belief is of Slavonic origin, and common among the Slavs.
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Sense: a dead person who is imagined to rise from the grave at night and suck the blood of sleeping people.
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 Afrikaans: vampier |
 Arabic: شَبَح الميِّت الذي يجول ل |
 Bulgarian: вампир |
 Brazilian: vampiro |
 Czech: upír |
 German: der Vampir |
 Danish: vampyr |
 Greek: βρικόλακας |
 Spanish: vampiro |
 Estonian: vampiir |
 Farsi: مردۀ خون آشام |
 Finnish: vampyyri |
 French: vampire |
 Hebrew: עַרפָּד |
 Hindi: राक्षस एक कल्पित भूत जो र |
 Croatian: vampir |
 Hungarian: vámpír |
 Indonesian: vampir |
 Icelandic: vampíra, blóðsuga |
 Italian: vampiro |
 Japanese: 吸血鬼 |
 Korean: 흡혈귀 |
 Lithuanian: vampyras |
 Latvian: vampīrs |
 Malay: puntianak |
 Dutch: vampier |
 Norwegian: vampyr |
 Polish: wampir |
 Portuguese: vampiro |
 Romanian: vampir |
 Russian: вампир |
 Slovak: upír |
 Slovenian: vampir |
 Serbian: vampir |
 Swedish: vampyr |
 Thai: ผีดูดเลือด |
 Turkish: vampir |
 Taiwanese: 吸血鬼 |
 Ukrainian: вампір, упир |
 Urdu: خوں آشام بھوت |
 Vietnamese: ma cà rồng |
 Chinese: 吸血鬼 |
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