vampyre
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- noun
- /væmˈpaɪər/
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- Baldini's course explores the first appearance of the modern vampire in the 1819 novella "The Vampyre" by John Polidori.
- John Polidori's The Vampyre
Examples
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Many horror stories feature a vampyre who longs for redemption after centuries of darkness.
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She has been marked as special by the vampyre goddess Nyx.
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He had become unholy, a vampyre, a creature of darkness beyond salvation.
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She is vampyre, nosferatu.
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Poe, Edgar Allan. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings. London: Penguin, 2003. Print. Polidori, John. The Vampyre. Oxford: Woodstock Books, 1990. Print.
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When she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school's most elite club, is misusing her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny—with a little help from her new vampyre friends.
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In folklore, a vampyre is said to rise from the grave to feed on the blood of the living.
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The novel's protagonist is a tormented vampyre searching for a way to end his eternal suffering.
Synonyms
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A dead person who comes out at night to drink the blood of living people
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A female monster that comes at night to drink people's blood
Surface Forms
Etymology
Vampyre comes from an Eastern European word vampir that meant 'blood-sucker'. So a vampyre is an old or literary night creature that drinks people's blood.