vampires
Meaning of vampires
- (in European folklore) a corpse supposed to leave its grave at night to drink the blood of the living by biting their necks with long pointed canine teeth.
- a small bat that feeds on the blood of mammals or birds using its two sharp incisor teeth and anticoagulant saliva, found mainly in tropical America.
- (in a theatre) a small spring trapdoor used for sudden disappearances from a stage.
mid 18th century: from French, from Hungarian vampir, perhaps from Turkish uber ‘witch’.
Information about vampires
- It is a name.
- The singular form of vampires is: vampire.
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CatalanHyphenation of vampires
vam-pires
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- vampires is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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