nosferatu

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a vampire, especially one represented as an undead and malignant creature

   Van Helsing warned that a victim of the vampire might become nosferatu in turn.

Entered English through nineteenth-century writing about Romanian folklore and was popularized by Bram Stoker's Dracula and the 1922 film Nosferatu. Its ultimate source is disputed; proposed connections include Romanian nesuferit ("unbearable, repugnant") and related regional forms.

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