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LAMIA (lamiae)

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Irregular inflected form: lamiae  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does lamia mean? 

LAMIA (noun)
  The noun LAMIA has 1 sense:

1. (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the livingplay

  Familiarity information: LAMIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LAMIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

lamia; vampire

Hypernyms ("lamia" is a kind of...):

evil spirit (a spirit tending to cause harm)

Domain category:

folklore (the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture)


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