Transylvanian
Americannoun
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Transylvanians
plural
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a native or inhabitant of Transylvania.
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of, relating to, or characteristic of Transylvania or its people.
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The director emphasizes that Orlok is a folk vampire, “not a suave dinner-coat-wearing seducer,” but rather “a corpse, more similar to a zombie. And what would a dead 16th-century Transylvanian nobleman look like?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2024
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.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2023
Bela Ferencz was born in the Transylvanian town of Somcuta Mare, in what was then Hungary, on March 11, 1920.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2023
The Transylvanian region was the Roman frontier region of Dacia at the time, and was noted for its mines.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 25, 2022
“I’ve come to suck your blood,” she says in her Transylvanian accent, but perhaps I misheard, perhaps she said, “You must be a very good sculptor.”
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
With regard to the younger generation, the Transylvanians are like well-bred people all the world over.
From Round About the Carpathians by Andrew F. Crosse
Eighty thousand Hungarians, Transylvanians, Wallachians, and Cossacks may cross the southern boundary at any moment.
From The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
New leagues, new legions of Hungarians, Transylvanians, Wallachians, and Cossacks were of no avail.
From The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
While he was saying these words his adjutant, Macskári, came to him and began to explain that the Transylvanians had been placed in the rear and were grumbling loudly at having been so set aside.
From The Slaves of the Padishah by M?r J?kai
The misery of the Transylvanians was, if possible, still greater than that of the Hungarians.
From The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
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