Antonyms for vampire

Grammar : Noun

Spell : vam-pahyuh r

Phonetic Transcription : ˈvæm paɪər

Definition of vampire

Origin : 1734, from French vampire or German Vampir (1732, in an account of Hungarian vampires), from Hungarian vampir, from Old Church Slavonic opiri (cf. Serbian vampir, Bulgarian vapir, Ukrainian uper), said by Slavic linguist Franc Miklošič to be ultimtely from Kazan Tatar ubyr "witch," but Max Vasmer, an expert in this linguistic area, finds that phonetically doubtful. An Eastern European creature popularized in English by late 19c. gothic novels, however there are scattered English accounts of night-walking, blood-gorged, plague-spreading undead corpses from as far back as 1196. Applied 1774 by French biologist Buffon to a species of South American blood-sucking bat.

As in bloodsucker : noun extortionist
As in phantasma : noun ghost
As in visitant : noun ghost
As in demon : noun evil, devilish being or influence
As in ghost : noun spirit of the dead

Example sentences :

The horrible doubts which he had driven away were sucking at his heart like a vampire.
Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine

It is said that the vampire has a sort of hunger, which makes him eat the linen which envelops him.
Extract from : « The Phantom World » by Augustin Calmet

Popery is the vampire that is sucking the life-blood of the country.
Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

Why should a man be ever shadowed by the vampire wing of his past?
Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service

It was as if the place was a vampire that was sucking the life and health from our veins.
Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service

He whom a vampire has slain is supposed, in some countries, himself to become a vampire.
Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston

Moreover, the Regular name for a vampire in Servian, he remarks, is vukodlak.
Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston

It is not only during sleep that the Vampire is to be dreaded.
Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston

"Vampire" as a book-hunter, 55—his collection, 56 et seq.—his policy at auctions, 57 et seq.
Extract from : « The Book-Hunter » by John Hill Burton

Dragon and Vampire were spiraling away in opposite directions.
Extract from : « The Cosmic Computer » by Henry Beam Piper

Synonyms for vampire

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