English-Thai Dictionary

vampire

N คำ เรียก สั้นๆ  ของ  vampire bat kam-riak-san-san-kong-vampire bat

 

vampire

N ผี ดูด เลือด  ผี ดูด เลือด มนุษย์  dracula ghoul zombie pi-dud-luead

 

vampire bat

N ค้างคาว ดูด เลือด  kang-kao-dud-luead

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VAMPIRE

n. 1. In mythology, an imaginary demon, which was fabled to suck the blood of persons during the night.
2. In zoology, a species of large bat, the Vespertilio vampyrus of Linne, called also the ternate bat. It inhabits Guinea, Madagascar, the East India Isles, New Holland and New Caledonia. These animals fly in flocks, darkening the air by their numbers. It is said that this bat will insinuate his tongue into the vein of an animal imperceptibly, and suck his blood while asleep. This name is also given by Buffon to a species of large bat in South America, the V. spectrum of Linne.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

VAMPIRE

Vam "pire, n. Etym: [F. vampire (cf. It. vampiro, G. & D. vampir ), fr. Servian vampir. ] [Written also vampyre.]

 

1. A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 173 . The persons who turn vampires are generally wizards, witches, suicides, and persons who have come to a violent end, or have been cursed by their parents or by the church, Encyc. Brit.

 

2. Fig. : One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.

 

3. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: Either one of two or more species of South American blood- sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a cæcal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored.

 

4. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially V. spectrum. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire. Vampire bat (Zoöl.), a vampire, 3.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

vampire

vam pire |ˈvamˌpī (ə )r ˈvæmˌpaɪ (ə )r | ▶noun 1 a corpse supposed, in European folklore, to leave its grave at night to drink the blood of the living by biting their necks with long pointed canine teeth. • a person who preys ruthlessly on others: the protectionist vampires in the Congress. 2 (also vampire bat ) 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. See also false vampire. [Family Desmodontidae (or Phyllostomidae ): three species, in particular the common vampire (Desmodus rotundus ).] DERIVATIVES vam pir ic |vamˈpirik |adjective ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: from French, from Hungarian vampir, perhaps from Turkish uber ‘witch. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

vampire

vampire |ˈvampʌɪə | ▶noun 1 a corpse supposed, in European folklore, to leave its grave at night to drink the blood of the living by biting their necks with long pointed canine teeth. • a person who preys ruthlessly on others: the protectionist vampires in the Congress. 2 (also vampire bat ) 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. See also false vampire. ●Family Desmodontidae (or Phyllostomidae ): three species, in particular the common vampire (Desmodus rotundus ). 3 (also vampire trap ) Theatre a small spring trapdoor used for sudden disappearances from a stage. DERIVATIVES vampiric |-ˈpɪrɪk |adjective ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: from French, from Hungarian vampir, perhaps from Turkish uber ‘witch ’.

 

French Dictionary

vampire

vampire n. m. nom masculin Fantôme qui vient sucer le sang des vivants pendant leur sommeil, d ’après la croyance populaire. : Ce film met en scène des vampires effrayants.

 

Spanish Dictionary

vampiresa

vampiresa nombre femenino Mujer que aprovecha su gran atractivo y su capacidad de seducción amorosa para conquistar a los hombres y conseguir beneficios de ellos .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

vampire

vam pire /vǽmpaɪə r /名詞 C 1 吸血鬼 〘死体に宿り, 夜生き返って, 眠っている人の血を吸うといわれる悪霊 〙.2 他人を食いものにする人, 搾取者 ; 妖婦 （ようふ ）.3 〘動 〙吸血コウモリ (vampire bat ).4 〘劇 〙落とし戸 .