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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : vam-pahyuh r |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈvæm paɪər |
Definition of vampires
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
- My first and principal object was to discourse of the vampires of Hungary.
- Extract from : « The Phantom World » by Augustin Calmet
- Thence the wakefulness, dreams, and pretended apparitions of vampires.
- Extract from : « The Phantom World » by Augustin Calmet
- Such are nearly the contents of the work of M. Herenberg on vampires.
- Extract from : « The Phantom World » by Augustin Calmet
- The vampires of which we are discoursing are very different from all those just mentioned.
- Extract from : « The Phantom World » by Augustin Calmet
- The footnotes relating to vampires (pp. 323-4) reference modern Greek.
- Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston
- Vampires live on blood, having no teeth suitable for mastication.
- Extract from : « Ranching, Sport and Travel » by Thomas Carson
- We neither govern nor take responsibility; yet we support these vampires.
- Extract from : « The Life of Gordon, Volume II » by Demetrius Charles Boulger
- Disguise is necessary—or one of the vampires might have recognized me.
- Extract from : « Three Hats » by Alfred Debrun
- And vampires are things I'd like to see drowned so deep they can't ever resurrect.
- Extract from : « The Heart of Unaga » by Ridgwell Cullum
- They believe in the idea of ghosts, witchcraft, and vampires.
- Extract from : « Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History » by Henry R. Schoolcraft
Synonyms for vampires
- apparition
- appearance
- Archfiend
- banshee
- beast
- bogey
- bogeyman
- bogle
- brute
- daemon
- demon
- devil
- eidolon
- ethereal being
- extortioner
- fiend
- freeloader
- goblin
- haunt
- hellion
- imp
- incorporeal being
- incubus
- kelpie
- leech
- little devil
- malignant spirit
- manes
- monster
- parasite
- phantasm
- phantasma
- phantom
- poltergeist
- rascal
- revenant
- rogue
- sanguisuge
- Satan
- shade
- shadow
- soul
- specter
- spirit
- sponge
- spook
- succubus
- tick
- vampire
- villain
- vision
- visitant
- visitor
- wraith
- zombie
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