strigoi.

Spirits or revenant beings in Romanian folkloric traditions, often associated in English accounts with vampiric activity.

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Words that belong together

• strigoi tales
• accounts of strigoi

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The archive contained several strigoi tales with incompatible accounts of the returning dead.

Her grandmother’s story of the strigoi differed from the film they had watched.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular a strigoi; plural strigoi in common English borrowing usage; plural treatment varies. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.