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say it: VAM-pahyr
vampire is a noun meaning "(folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living". It is pronounced /ˈvæmpaɪɹ/ — VAM-pahyr. It carries one recorded sense.
(folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living
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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for vampire come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.