"fanpire" meaning in English

See fanpire in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: fanpires [plural]
Etymology: Blend of fan + vampire. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|fan|vampire}} Blend of fan + vampire Head templates: {{en-noun}} fanpire (plural fanpires)
  1. (fandom slang) A fan of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight book series or the associated films. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Fans (people), Twilight (novel series) Synonyms: Twifan, Twihard, Twilighter, Twitard [derogatory] Hyponyms: Twimom
    Sense id: en-fanpire-en-noun-6H4u1WqI Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: lifestyle

Inflected forms

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Twihater"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fan",
        "3": "vampire"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of fan + vampire",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of fan + vampire.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fanpires",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fanpire (plural fanpires)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fans (people)",
          "orig": "en:Fans (people)",
          "parents": [
            "Fandom",
            "People",
            "Culture",
            "Human",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Twilight (novel series)",
          "orig": "en:Twilight (novel series)",
          "parents": [
            "American fiction",
            "Fantasy",
            "Literature",
            "Vampires",
            "Fiction",
            "United States",
            "Speculative fiction",
            "Culture",
            "Entertainment",
            "Writing",
            "Blood",
            "Characters from folklore",
            "Death",
            "Horror",
            "Mythological creatures",
            "Artistic works",
            "North America",
            "Genres",
            "Society",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "Bodily fluids",
            "Fictional characters",
            "Folklore",
            "Body",
            "Life",
            "Mythology",
            "Art",
            "America",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "Body parts",
            "Liquids",
            "Nature",
            "Earth",
            "Fundamental",
            "Anatomy",
            "Matter",
            "Biology",
            "Medicine",
            "Chemistry",
            "Sciences",
            "Healthcare",
            "Health"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 November 18, Derrik J. Lang, “Fans flock to 'Twilight' premiere in Los Angeles”, in USA Today:",
          "text": "The self-proclaimed fanpires gawked, squealed and begged for autographs and photos with the stars.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 July 16, “An event to sink your teeth into”, in The Charleston Gazette:",
          "text": "Have you devoured the \"Twilight\" books? Are you obsessed with Edward? Can you recite the entire \"Twilight\" movie? Do you have Bella on the brain? Then you just might be a \"Twilight\" fanpire.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Victoria Nelson, Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural, Harvard University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 136:",
          "text": "That their emotional relationship is foregrounded over sex may also explain why the mothers of Meyer's “fanpires” are great enthusiasts of the books, too.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fan of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight book series or the associated films."
      ],
      "hyponyms": [
        {
          "word": "Twimom"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-fanpire-en-noun-6H4u1WqI",
      "links": [
        [
          "fandom",
          "fandom"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "fan",
          "fan"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fandom slang) A fan of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight book series or the associated films."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Twifan"
        },
        {
          "word": "Twihard"
        },
        {
          "word": "Twilighter"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "derogatory"
          ],
          "word": "Twitard"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fanpire"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Twihater"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fan",
        "3": "vampire"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of fan + vampire",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of fan + vampire.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fanpires",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fanpire (plural fanpires)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "word": "Twimom"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English blends",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English fandom slang",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Fans (people)",
        "en:Twilight (novel series)"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 November 18, Derrik J. Lang, “Fans flock to 'Twilight' premiere in Los Angeles”, in USA Today:",
          "text": "The self-proclaimed fanpires gawked, squealed and begged for autographs and photos with the stars.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 July 16, “An event to sink your teeth into”, in The Charleston Gazette:",
          "text": "Have you devoured the \"Twilight\" books? Are you obsessed with Edward? Can you recite the entire \"Twilight\" movie? Do you have Bella on the brain? Then you just might be a \"Twilight\" fanpire.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Victoria Nelson, Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural, Harvard University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 136:",
          "text": "That their emotional relationship is foregrounded over sex may also explain why the mothers of Meyer's “fanpires” are great enthusiasts of the books, too.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fan of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight book series or the associated films."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fandom",
          "fandom"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "fan",
          "fan"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fandom slang) A fan of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight book series or the associated films."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Twifan"
    },
    {
      "word": "Twihard"
    },
    {
      "word": "Twilighter"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "derogatory"
      ],
      "word": "Twitard"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fanpire"
}

Download raw JSONL data for fanpire meaning in English (2.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.