vampire
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: vampires
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vampyre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: wampyr
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: vampires
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vampiring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vampired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vampired
pos: verb
tags: past
form: vampyre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: wampyr
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A mythological creature (usually humanoid and undead) said to feed on the blood or life energy of the living.
pos: noun
examples: Bram Stoker's novel Dracula built on centuries-old stories of vampires and also encouraged new growth of the mythology.
[I]n the Village of Medreyga in Hungary, certain dead Bodies (call'd there Vampyres) had kill'd several Persons by sucking out all their Blood: That Arnold Paul, an Heyduke, having kill'd four Persons after he was dead, his Body was taken up 40 Days after, which bled at the Nose, Mouth and Ears: That, according to Custom, they drove a Stake thro' his Heart, at which he gave horrid Groan, and lost a great deal of Blood. And that all such as have been tormented or kill'd by Vampyres, become Vampyres when they are dead.
The universal belief is, that a person sucked by a vampyre becomes a vampyre himself, and sucks in his turn.
From my laboratory in the Castle east
To the master bedroom, where the vampires feast
The ghouls all came from their humble abodes
To get a jolt from my electrodes
They did the Mash
They did the Monster Mash.
I'm a vampire, baby, sucking blood from the earth / Well, I'm a vampire, baby, sell you twenty barrels worth
gloss: A person with habits traditionally ascribed to (literal) vampires, such as heliophobia, being a night owl, having pale skin, and so on.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
humorous
usually
examples: Near-synonyms: heliophobe, goth
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!
gloss: A person with the medical condition porphyria cutanea tarda, colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity and brownish-red stained teeth.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
offensive
gloss: A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus)
pos: noun
gloss: A person who drains one's time, energy, money, etc.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
figuratively
examples: emotional vampire
You have to be careful what you tell her, because she's such a vampire for drama.
gloss: A vamp: a seductive woman who exploits men.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: "What followed this decision was exactly what we had expected: Mr. Fox, realizing that the public was tiring of Theda Bara in vampire roles, announced that he would star her in a production of Romeo and Juliet," she illustrated.
gloss: A medical technician who works with patients' blood; especially, a phlebotomist.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: Only one technician in the hospital lab, in all we have encountered, uses it. […] Eric makes no complaints other than those directed at the vampires. Brenda and I do.
"I draw blood from patients, and then I take it back to the lab and analyze it. Sometimes, the vampires do all the sticks, that is to say the lab assistants do all the blood collections." He grinned. "We have our own language at the lab."
gloss: Synonym of anti-ship missile (ASM), particularly an incoming hostile one.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: Vampire. Vampire. Vampire. Battle stations.
gloss: To drain of energy or resources.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
Related words: vamp
Derived words: energy vampire
help vampire
hopping vampire
psychic vampire
sea vampire
time vampire
vampicide
vampire bat
vampire bug
vampire cough
vampire crab
vampire deer
vampiredom
vampire draw
vampire facial
vampire glove
vampire ground finch
vampirehood
vampirekind
vampireless
vampirelike
vampire moth
vampire number
vampiresque
vampire squid
vampiress
vampire's teabag
vampire syndrome
vampire taco
vampire time
vampire trap
vampirette
vampirey
vampireyness
vampiric
vampirical
vampirically
vampirina
vampirish
vampirism
vampiroid
vampirologist
vampirology
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