Word
dracula
Phoneticsdrac·u·la
/ˈdɹækjuɫə/
Definition
n. The famous vampire from the book by Bram Stoker who lives in a castle in Transylvania.
n. The fictional protagonist of Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel, characterized by his aristocratic status and vampiric nature.
Examples
“He dressed up as Dracula for the Halloween party.”
“The old mansion on the hill looked so spooky that the local children joked Dracula lived there.”
“Stoker's Dracula transformed the vampire from a mindless folkloric monster into a sophisticated, aristocratic predator that continues to haunt the collective imagination of Western literature.”
Examples
simple
“He dressed up as Dracula for the Halloween party.”
contextual
“The old mansion on the hill looked so spooky that the local children joked Dracula lived there.”
complex
“Stoker's Dracula transformed the vampire from a mindless folkloric monster into a sophisticated, aristocratic predator that continues to haunt the collective imagination of Western literature.”
Etymology
From the name Vlad III Dracula (also known as Vlad Țepeș (“Vlad the Impaler”)), from the name of his father Vlad II Dracul, who was given the name Dracul by the Order of the Dragon. Dracul (literally “the Devil”) comes from the Romanian drac (“devil”), itself deriving from the Latin dracō (“dragon”).
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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