vampire
See also: Vampire
English
Alternative forms
- (archaic) vampyre
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French vampire, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Vampir, from a Slavic word, probably (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr (said to be an alteration of a term *upir), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Slavic *ǫpyrь.[1][2] Compare Russian упы́рь (upýrʹ), Polish upiór, etc.
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file)
Noun
vampire (plural vampires)
- A mythological undead creature said to feed on the blood of the living. [from earlier 18th c.]
- (colloquial) A person with the medical condition systemic lupus erythematosus, colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity and brownish-red stained teeth.
- A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) [from later 18th c.]
- (figurative, derogatory) A person who drains one's time, energy, money, etc.
- (dated) A vamp: a seductive woman who exploits men.
- 2004, David W. Menefee, The First Female Stars: Women of the Silent Era (page 4)
- "What followed this decision was exactly what we had expected: Mr. Fox, realizing that the public was tiring of Theda Bara in vampire roles, announced that he would star her in a production of Romeo and Juliet," she illustrated.
- 2004, David W. Menefee, The First Female Stars: Women of the Silent Era (page 4)
- (US, slang) A medical technician who works with patients' blood.
- 1992, Terry Pringle, This is the Child:
- Only one technician in the hospital lab, in all we have encountered, uses it. […] Eric makes no complaints other than those directed at the vampires. Brenda and I do.
- 2000, Tracie Peterson, Colorado Wings (page 373)
- "I draw blood from patients, and then I take it back to the lab and analyze it. Sometimes, the vampires do all the sticks, that is to say the lab assistants do all the blood collections." He grinned. "We have our own language at the lab."
Synonyms
- (mythological creature): nosferatu, lamia, cadaver sanguine
- (bat): vampire bat
- (blood drinker): hemovore, hematophagous
Derived terms
- energy vampire
- help vampire
- vampire bat
- vampire crab
- vampire taco
- vampiress
- vampiric
- vampirina
- vampirism
- vampiredom
- vampirehood
Related terms
Descendants
- → Bengali: ভ্যাম্পায়ার (bhêmpaẏar)
- → Irish: vaimpír
- → Japanese: ヴァンパイア (vanpaia), バンパイア (banpaia)
- → Marathi: व्हॅम्पायर (vhĕmpāyar)
- → Thai: แวมไพร์ (wɛm-paai)
- → Scottish Gaelic: bhampair
- → Swahili: vampiri
- → Welsh: fampir
Translations
mythological creature
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person suffering of vampirism
bat
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Verb
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- (transitive, figurative) To drain of energy or resources.
See also
- werewolf
- bloodsucker
- hemovore
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- Common vampire bat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Desmodus rotundus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Template:commonslite
- Desmodus rotundus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- The meaning of the word "vampire"
References
- ^ “vampire”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ “vampire”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Anagrams
Esperanto
Adverb
vampire
Related terms
French
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
vampire m (plural vampires)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Armenian: վամպիր (vampir)
- → Asturian: vampiru
- → Belarusian: вампір (vampir)
- → Catalan: vampir
- → Czech: vampýr
- → English: vampire
- → Bengali: ভ্যাম্পায়ার (bhêmpaẏar)
- → Irish: vaimpír
- → Japanese: ヴァンパイア (vanpaia), バンパイア (banpaia)
- → Marathi: व्हॅम्पायर (vhĕmpāyar)
- → Thai: แวมไพร์ (wɛm-paai)
- → Scottish Gaelic: bhampair
- → Swahili: vampiri
- → Welsh: fampir
- → Galician: vampiro
- → Georgian: ვამპირი (vamṗiri)
- → Greek: βαμπίρ (vampír)
- → Italian: vampiro
- → Malagasy: vampira
- → Occitan: vampire
- → Romanian: vampir
- → Russian: вампир (vampir)
- → Slovak: vampír
- → Spanish: vampiro, vampira
- → Turkish: vampir
- → Ukrainian: вампір (vampir)
Further reading
- “vampire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
Pronunciation
Noun
vampire f pl
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