词源

可能源自一个指吸血鬼的罗马尼亚语词。该词在布莱姆·斯托克于1897年所著小说《德拉库拉》和F·W·穆瑙执导的1922年德国电影《不死殭屍—恐慄交響曲》的影响下得到普及。参见英语维基百科中关于该词词源的解释（以及其参考资料）。

发音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˌnɒsfəˈɹɑːtuː/

名词

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1. 吸血鬼

   近義詞：

   • 1897, , Dracula, 出版於 1993，頁號 192:

     "Friend Arthur, if you had met that kiss [...] you would in time, when you had died, have become nosferatu, as they call it in Eastern Europe, and would all time make more of those Un-Deads that so have filled us with horror."

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   • 2018 November, Kevin Jackson, “Something to Sink Your Teeth Into”, 出自 Literary Review:

     Those of us who have dabbled much in the lore of the nosferatu tend to think of them as imaginative creations of the German and English Romantics, and not without reason.

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   • 2018, , Europe: A Natural History，頁號 26:

     While it may have been capable of flight, it almost certainly spent its time on Hateg crawling about on its wrists, with its great leathery wings folded over its body like a shroud. A gigantic kind of Nosferatu comes to mind.

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