# Dracula

/ˈdɹækjuɫə/ (US)

Source: https://englishreference.com/word/dracula
Updated: 2026-08-27

## Senses

### 1. the literary character

noun · CEFR B2

The famous vampire from the book by Bram Stoker who lives in a castle in Transylvania.

For teachers: The fictional protagonist of Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel, characterized by his aristocratic status and vampiric nature.

- In the movie, Dracula sleeps in a coffin during the day to hide from the sun.
- Stoker's Dracula remains the definitive archetype for modern vampire fiction, establishing many of the tropes we recognize in the genre today.

## 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.

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