vampire

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/ˈvæm.paɪ.ə(ɹ)/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A mythical creature said to drink the blood of living people.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A person with habits traditionally ascribed to (literal) vampires, such as heliophobia, being a night owl, having pale skin, and so on.

Examples

  • A vampire can paralyze people just by looking at them.

  • The vampire movie filled them with terror.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

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Parts of speech
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Synonyms
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Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A mythological creature (usually humanoid and undead) said to feed on the blood or life energy of the living.

  2. A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus)

  3. A person with the medical condition porphyria cutanea tarda, colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity and brownish-red stained teeth.

More examples

In context

  • Chris defeated the vampire knight!

  • Bram Stoker's novel Dracula built on centuries-old stories of vampires and also encouraged new growth of the mythology.

  • Somehow I doubt that Kelly will want to go surfing with us — she's such a vampire that she might recoil from the sun, lol!

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From French vampire, from German Vampir, via Hungarian from a Slavic word, probably Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr /ва̀мпӣр, from Proto-Slavic *ǫpyrь, further possibly from Proto-Turkic *ōpur (“glutton, witch, evil spirit”), or from native construction. Doublet of oupire.