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DRACULA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fictional vampire in a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: diminutive plants having bizarre and often sinister-looking flowers with pendulous scapes and motile lips
Synonyms:
Dracula; genus Dracula
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Dracula" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Holonyms ("Dracula" is a member of...):
family Orchidaceae; orchid family; Orchidaceae (enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks and unusual flowers)
Context examples:
It is only a line dated from Castle Dracula, and says that he is just starting for home.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He come on moonlight rays as elemental dust—as again Jonathan saw those sisters in the castle of Dracula.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I knew that if anything were to take us to Castle Dracula we should go by Galatz, or at any rate through Bucharest, so I learned the times very carefully.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Before I began to restore these women to their dead selves through my awful work, I laid in Dracula's tomb some of the Wafer, and so banished him from it, Un-Dead, for ever.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Even my own terrible experiences in Castle Dracula seem like a long-forgotten dream. Here in the crisp autumn air in the bright sunlight— Alas! how can I disbelieve!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I agreed heartily with him, and then I told him what we had found in his absence: that the house which Dracula had bought was the very next one to my own.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
All at once we heard the crow of a cock coming up with preternatural shrillness through the clear morning air; Count Dracula, jumping to his feet, said:—Why, there is the morning again!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Ah, young sir, the Szekelys—and the Dracula as their heart's blood, their brains, and their swords—can boast a record that mushroom growths like the Hapsburgs and the Romanoffs can never reach.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The Draculas were, says Arminius, a great and noble race, though now and again were scions who were held by their coevals to have had dealings with the Evil One.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
