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1. a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
2. (in Eastern European folklore) a corpse, animated by an undeparted soul or demon, that periodically leaves the grave and disturbs the living, until it is exhumed and impaled or burned.
3. a person who preys ruthlessly upon others; extortionist. neutral (Come, come now... Let's not get nasty... an extortionist is exactly that...an extortionist-has NOTHING to do with vampires.) talk2hand
4. a woman who unscrupulously exploits, ruins, or degrades the men she seduces. evil scream (O.K.! That's IT! Now it really is getting personal! Vampire is a MALE...since when did we start gender bending the term!? VAMPIRESS is the FEMALE! AND ANOTHER THING...a vampire is NOT a ruiner of MEN and their reputations. HE'S A KILLER AND A DRINKER OF BLOOD! The VAMPIRE cares nothing of anyones stupid reputations. That would be considered petty and beneith him. He cares for his hunt, the prey. The vampire is not unlike a tiger, they have much in common.)
5. an actress noted for her roles as an unscrupulous seductress: the vampires of the silent movies. (I'd like to know who came up with this s**t?) confused stare
1. A reanimated corpse that is believed to rise from the grave at night to suck the blood of sleeping people.
2. A person, such as an extortionist, who preys upon others. eek (Again with the extortionist... Didn't we already cover this...?!) stare
3. A vampire bat.
vampire
1734, from Fr. vampire or Ger. Vampir (1732, in an account of Hungarian vampires), from Hung. vampir, from O.C.S. opiri (cf. Serb. vampir, Bulg. vapir, Ukrainian uper), said by Slavic linguist Franc Miklošič to be ult. from Kazan Tatar ubyr "witch." An Eastern European creature popularized in Eng. by late 19c. gothic novels, however there are scattered Eng. accounts of night-walking, blood-gorged, plague-spreading (eww, come on, it this guy for real ? stare ) undead corpses from as far back as 1196. (I believe night walking... but isn't blood gorged plague spreading getting kind of judgemental and a little personal?) stare Applied 1774 by Fr. biologist Buffon to a species of South American blood-sucking bat.
vampire
noun
(folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living
vampire [ˈvӕmpaiə] noun
a dead person who is imagined to rise from the grave at night and suck the blood of sleeping people
Arabic: شَبَح الميِّت الذي يجول لإمتصاص الدِّماء
Chinese (Simplified): 吸血鬼
Chinese (Traditional): 吸血鬼
Czech: upír
Danish: vampyr
Dutch: vampier
Estonian: vampiir
Finnish: vampyyri
French: vampire
German: der Vampir
Greek: βρικόλακας
Hungarian: vámpír
Icelandic: vampíra, blóðsuga
Indonesian: vampir
Italian: vampiro
Japanese: 吸血鬼
Korean: 흡혈귀
Latvian: vampīrs
Lithuanian: vampyras
Norwegian: vampyr
Polish: wampir
Portuguese (Brazil): vampiro
Portuguese (Portugal): vampiro
Romanian: vampir
Russian: вампир
Slovak: upír
Slovenian: vampir
Spanish: vampiro
Swedish: vampyr
Turkish: vampir
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