Definitions for vampire

vampire vam·pire

Spelling: [vam-pahyuh r]
IPA: /ˈvæm paɪər/

Vampire is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 212 anagrams from letters in vampire (aeimprv).

Definitions for vampire

noun

  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.
  4. a woman who unscrupulously exploits, ruins, or degrades the men she seduces.
  5. an actress noted for her roles as an unscrupulous seductress:

Origin of vampire

1725-35; (German Vampir Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr, alteration of earlier upir (by confusion with doublets such as vȁzdūh, ȕzdūh air (Slavic vŭ-), and with intrusive nasal, as in dùbrava, dumbrȁva

Examples for vampire

Next door in Romania, a historical figure nicknamed Vlad the Impaler inspired the first mainstream depiction of a vampire.

The horrible doubts which he had driven away were sucking at his heart like a vampire.

The vampire at the heart of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night neither sparkles nor sleeps in coffins.

Why should a man be ever shadowed by the vampire wing of his past?

He is believed to have been considered a vampire in the mid-19th century and decapitated after his death.

Popery is the vampire that is sucking the life-blood of the country.

It was as if the place was a vampire that was sucking the life and health from our veins.

Mistletoe is basically a vampire—but one of those an anti-hero type vampires.

And someone named something like, “vampire Man Randy,” commented on it and wrote, “sex feet.”

It is said that the vampire has a sort of hunger, which makes him eat the linen which envelops him.

Word Value for vampire
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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