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
They don’t flirt shamelessly with the likes of me when they have Transylvanian girlfriends.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
In the Hungarians, Transylvanians, and Croats, Austria has resources possessed by few other states.
From The Art of War by George Henry Mendell
Moreover, during the Thirty Years' war, and even later, a large portion of the land was in possession of the Turks and their allies, the Transylvanians, with whom the Hungarians were in sympathy.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 by Various
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
Generally speaking, the Transylvanians had only to appear, to have their demands promptly complied with; for these marauders had to be bought off because the emperor had more pressing business elsewhere.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
The Turks took it from the Transylvanians in 1552, and fortified it to a degree that they deemed it impregnable.
From Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe by Thaddeus Mason Harris
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