Although traditionally used to refer to the bloodsucking undead, you can use the noun vampire to describe someone who heartlessly preys on others a blackmailer, or anyone else who just sucks the life out of you.
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 1730.
Noun
(folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living
n.
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 1730.
n.
Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner;
a bloodsucker.
n.
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 caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the
blood with which they gorge themselves is stored.
n.
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
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,2.
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 1730.
Usage Examples
It's cool to play a vampire and be a part of this new, hot genre.
I've always thought vampires were interesting because they live forever, they're always well-financed, they dress well, you know what I mean? And they're, like, cool. Usually vampire - you've never seen a broke vampire. Have you?
My niece was very much caught up in the vampire craze for young adults, and she thought having a vampire boyfriend would be a cool thing. What do you do on a first date? The more I thought about it, the more fun I had imagining what you'd serve a vampire for dinner.
I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.
Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.
I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching 'Nosferatu.' Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.
I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.
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Other Usage ExamplesI love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.
It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.
What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them they were born that way.
The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.
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