Vampire

Noun

 * 1) A mythological undead creature said to feed on human blood.
 * 2)  A person with the medical condition Systemic lupus erythematosus, colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity, brownish-red stained teeth, and increased night vision.
 * 3) A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus)

Thesaurus
Aspasia, Baba Yaga, Circe, Delilah, Don Juan, Dracula, Euryale, Frankenstein, Gorgon, Jezebel, Lilith, Lorelei, Medea, Medusa, Messalina, Parthenope, Phryne, Siren, Stheno, Thais, Wolf-man, adventuress, afreet, ape-man, barghest, bewitcher, blackmailer, bloodsucker, bogey, bogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear, cacodemon, captive, catch, charmer, conquest, coquette, courtesan, daeva, date, demimondaine, demimonde, demirep, demon, devil, devil incarnate, dybbuk, enchanter, enchantress, enticer, evil genius, evil spirit, extortionist, fee-faw-fum, femme fatale, fiend, fiend from hell, flirt, frightener, genie, genius, ghost, ghoul, gyre, harem girl, harpy, hellhound, hellion, hellkite, hetaera, hobgoblin, holy terror, honey, horror, houri, incubus, inveigler, jinni, jinniyeh, lamia, leech, monster, nightmare, odalisque, ogre, ogress, phantom, predator, profiteer, racketeer, rakshasa, raptor, revenant, satan, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, seducer, seductress, shakedown artist, shark, shedu, siren, specter, spellbinder, steady, succubus, sweet patootie, sweetheart, sweetie, teaser, tempter, temptress, terror, the undead, vamp, vulture, werewolf, yogini

Alternative forms

 * vampyre

Etymology
From vampire: or  Vampir:, from  vámpír:, from  vampir:, from. Cf. Russian упырь:, Polish upiór:, etc.

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/"v{m.paI.@(r)/}}

Related terms

 * vamp

Synonyms

 * nosferatu
 * vampire bat

Derived terms

 * vampire bat
 * vampiress
 * vampiric
 * vampirism

Translations

 * Afrikaans: vampier
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مصاصة
 * Armenian: վամպիր
 * Asturian: vampiru
 * Basque: banpiro
 * Bosnian:, vampirka
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: vampir
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:, vampýr
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: vampiir
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: vampiro
 * Georgian: ვამპირი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ערפד (arpad)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:, ヴァンパイア
 * Latvian: vampīrs
 * Lithuanian: vampyras ; vampyrė
 * Luxembourgish: Vampir
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, , , vârcolac, , strigoaie
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: bhampair
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: вампир, вампирка , вампирица
 * Roman: vampir, vampirka , vampirica
 * Slovak: upír, vampír
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Sumerian: akhkharu
 * Swahili: mumiani, vampiri
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bampira
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: vampir,  hivampir,  jivampir
 * Welsh: fampir


 * Czech: vampýr
 * Estonian: vereimeja
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: dơi hút máu

Anagrams

 * vampier

Noun
vampire