Look up: Vampire

1. Vampire
   In Slav mythology, a Vampire is an undead corpse which lives by drinking the blood of the living.
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2. vampire
   [n] - (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living
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3. vampire
   In Hungarian and Slavonic folklore, an `undead` corpse that sleeps in its coffin by day and sucks the blood of the living by night, often in the form of a bat. Dracula is a vampire in popular...
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4. Vampire
   Vam"pire noun [ French vampire (cf. Italian vampiro , G. & Dutch vampir ), from Servian vampir .] [ Written also vampyre .] 1. 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 E …
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5. vampire
   1. 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. "The persons who turn vampires are genera …
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6. vampire
   lamia noun (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living
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7. Vampire
   [[Image:Burne-Jones-le-Vampire.jpg|thumb|right|260px||Philip Burne-Jones, `The Vampire`, 1897]] `Vampires` are mythological or folkloric creatures, described as undead beings who feed by draining the blood of humans. Although vampiric entities have been recorded in most cultures, the term `vampire` was not popularised until the early 18th century, after an influx of vampire folklore into Western Europe from the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Folklor...
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8. Vampire
   [[Image:Burne-Jones-le-Vampire.jpg|thumb|right|260px||Philip Burne-Jones, `The Vampire`, 1897]] `Vampires` are mythological or folkloric creatures, described as undead beings who feed by draining the blood of humans. Although vampiric entities have been recorded in most cultures, the term `vampire` was not popularised until the early 18th century, after an influx of vampire folklore into Western Europe from the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Folklor...
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9. Vampire
   • (n.) 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 s...
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10. vampire
    in popular legend, a bloodsucking creature, supposedly the restless soul of a heretic, criminal, or suicide, that leaves its burial place at night, ... [1 related articles]
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