Dracula
pronunciation
How to pronounce Dracula in British English:
UK [ˈdrækjələ]
How to pronounce Dracula in American English:
US
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- Noun:
- comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: diminutive plants having bizarre and often sinister-looking flowers with pendulous scapes and motile lips
- fictional vampire in a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker
Word Origin
- 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.
Example
- 1. However will they deal with the truth about dracula ?
- 2. They dress up as ghosts , witches or frightening dracula .
- 3. Count dracula ? I am dracula .
- 4. The bat stands for eternal life , through our lord dracula .
- 5. We have to scrap dracula for may .