"wampyr" meaning in English

See wampyr in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: wampyrs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} wampyr (plural wampyrs)
  1. (fantasy) vampire Categories (topical): Fantasy
    Sense id: en-wampyr-en-noun-lMQUNvA4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Vampires Topics: fantasy

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for wampyr meaning in English (1.4kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wampyrs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wampyr (plural wampyrs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fantasy",
          "orig": "en:Fantasy",
          "parents": [
            "Fiction",
            "Speculative fiction",
            "Artistic works",
            "Genres",
            "Art",
            "Entertainment",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Vampires",
          "orig": "en:Vampires",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York: Doubleday & McClure, published 1899, page xviii. 241",
          "text": "'[A]nd in one manuscript this very Dracula is spoken of as \"wampyr\", which we all understood too well.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, William Mark Simmons, One Foot in the Grave",
          "text": "\"This is difficult to prove as there are no remains — ergo, no brain — to dissect following a wampyr's death.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "vampire"
      ],
      "id": "en-wampyr-en-noun-lMQUNvA4",
      "links": [
        [
          "fantasy",
          "fantasy"
        ],
        [
          "vampire",
          "vampire"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fantasy) vampire"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "fantasy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wampyr"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wampyrs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wampyr (plural wampyrs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Fantasy",
        "en:Vampires"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York: Doubleday & McClure, published 1899, page xviii. 241",
          "text": "'[A]nd in one manuscript this very Dracula is spoken of as \"wampyr\", which we all understood too well.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, William Mark Simmons, One Foot in the Grave",
          "text": "\"This is difficult to prove as there are no remains — ergo, no brain — to dissect following a wampyr's death.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "vampire"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fantasy",
          "fantasy"
        ],
        [
          "vampire",
          "vampire"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fantasy) vampire"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "fantasy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wampyr"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.