Definitions for vampires

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vampires vam·pire

Spelling: [vam-pahyuh r]

IPA: /ˈvæm paɪər/

Vampires is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 454 anagrams from letters in vampires (aeimprsv).

Definitions for vampires

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 vampires

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 vampires

My first and principal object was to discourse of the vampires of Hungary.

The vampires of which we are discoursing are very different from all those just mentioned.

In contrast, The Strain was returning to the roots of vampires as scary parasitic creatures—and I liked that.

The footnotes relating to vampires (pp. 323-4) reference modern Greek.

Thence the wakefulness, dreams, and pretended apparitions of vampires.

I wanted to find a vessel to carry all of these ideas I have about vampires.

Bill, of course, is in the latter stages of Hep V—an AIDS-like virus that preys on vampires.

This Tuesday, a bunch of vampires and would-be superheroes will knock on our doors and ask us to reward them.

I already have to share too much with all the vampires of the world.

Such are nearly the contents of the work of M. Herenberg on vampires.