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Dracula
[ drak-yuh-luh ]
noun
- (italics) a novel (1897) by Bram Stoker.
- Count, the central character in this novel: the archetype of a vampire.
Word History and Origins
Origin of Dracula1
Example Sentences
Striking perhaps even closer to home was Stoker’s 1897 “Dracula,” which took the already sexually charged archetype of the vampire out of the distant hinterlands of Central Europe and transported him to London.
Of the holy trinity of monsters—Dracula, Frankenstein, and Wolfman—I was always for the Wolfman.
In this Netflix original, which is based on the popular video-game franchise of the same name, a vampire hunter resolves to protect his city from Dracula’s deadly rage.
Tinkering with spelling for humorous effect is optional, as in “Dracula” and “vernacula,” as the late ace limerician Hugh Thirlway has done.
That was what I liked: the idea that they find that ship, and like in Dracula there is a coffin on board, in the cargo.
The first on-set memory she is certain of came two years later in Dracula.
Just like Dracula, Bill Compton, and Edward Cullen, adult ticks live vampirically on mammalian blood.
Dracula was a great moment for Keanu, in my view, and I will take no prisoners on that.
When Dracula feeds on a human, the blood sucking is more graphic than on True Blood, even.
Of course, all vampires live to a strange lease on life, but most of them are spirits rather than human beings as was Dracula.
The count, in Dracula, who has lived his vampire life for centuries, is said to be hale and fresh as if he were forty.
She had a dread feeling that Cecil might be able to crawl over the sheer face of a building, like "Dracula."
It is only a line dated from Castle Dracula, and says that he is just starting for home.
I am Dracula; and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house.
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