Transylvanian

[tran-sil-vayn-ee-uhn, -vayn-yuhn]

noun

plural

Transylvanians 

1. a native or inhabitant of Transylvania.

2. of, relating to, or characteristic of Transylvania or its people.

Example Sentences

Nicholas Santiago’s projections give eerie embellishment to Stephanie Kerley Schwartz’s scenic design, so that the basic outline of Inverness Castle suggests at moments Dracula’s Transylvanian crypt.

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An ancient Transylvanian vampire haunts a young woman in 19th Century Germany.

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Inside the Vatican Banquet Hall’s castle-like exterior and fog-filled middle-of-the-room runway interior stage, it’s not hard to envision the longtime struggle between the Van Helsing family of vampire hunters and the Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, playing out.

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Since Bram Stoker wrote his 1897 novel about a Transylvanian nobleman who is also a vampire, there have been countless films, plays, books, essays and comic book adaptations.

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Really, xenophobia has always been all around him — as much a fixture of the scenic Transylvanian landscape as the gnarled trees and gray skies we see in Tudor Vladimir Panduru’s beautifully composed widescreen images, and as much a tradition as the parade of bear-costumed revelers we see during some local holiday festivities.

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