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Dracula [drak-yuh-luh] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- (italics) a novel (1897) by Bram Stoker.
- Count, the central character in this novel: the archetype of a vampire.
Origin of Dracula ≪ Low German Dracol, Dracole, Dracle a by-name of the Wallachian prince Vlad II, “the Impaler” (1431–76); orig. of the name is disputed, but it has long been popularly associated with Romanian dracul the devil (drac devil (Latin dracō dragon) + -ul definite article) Examples from the Web for dracula Contemporary Examples of dracula
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.
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July 14, 2014
The first on-set memory she is certain of came two years later in Dracula.
Caryn James
May 7, 2014
Just like Dracula, Bill Compton, and Edward Cullen, adult ticks live vampirically on mammalian blood.
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Kent Sepkowitz
April 2, 2014
Dracula was a great moment for Keanu, in my view, and I will take no prisoners on that.
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When Dracula feeds on a human, the blood sucking is more graphic than on True Blood, even.
NBC’s ‘Dracula’ Sure Is Sexy, But It Isn’t Scary
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October 25, 2013
Historical Examples of dracula
I am Dracula; and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house.
Bram Stoker
To his original list of stories in this book, I have added an hitherto unpublished episode from Dracula.
Bram Stoker
He had been posing as a retired dentist and here he was running up walls like the count in Dracula.
Anthony Trent, Master Criminal
Wyndham Martyn
He come on moonlight rays as elemental dust—as again Jonathan saw those sisters in the castle of Dracula.
Bram Stoker
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 Supernatural in Modern English Fiction
Dorothy Scarborough
Word Origin and History for dracula Dracula n.
the vampire, from in Bram Stoker’s novel (1897). It was a surname of Prince Vlad II of Wallachia (d.1476), and means in Romanian “son of Dracul,” literally “the dragon,” from the name and emblem taken by Vlad’s father, also named Vlad, c.1431 when he joined the Order of the Dragon, founded 1418 by Sigismund the Glorious of Hungary to defend the Christian religion from the Turks and crush heretics and schismatics.