Wraith vs. Vampire — What's the Difference?

A ghost or ghostlike image of someone, especially one seen shortly before or after their death.

A vampire is a creature from folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires are undead creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited while they were alive.

An apparition of someone that is believed to appear as a portent just before that person's death.

In popular folklore, an undead being in human form that survives by sucking the blood of living people, especially at night.

The ghost of a dead person.

A person, such as an extortionist, who takes advantage of others, especially for personal gain.

Something faint or insubstantial

A vampire bat.

A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death.

A mythological undead creature said to feed on the blood of the living.

An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a vision; an unreal image.

(colloquial) A person with the medical condition systemic lupus erythematosus, colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity and brownish-red stained teeth.

Sometimes, improperly, a spirit thought to preside over the waters; - called also water wraith.

A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus)

A mental representation of some haunting experience;

A person who drains one's time, energy, money, etc.

(dated) A vamp: a seductive woman who exploits men.

A medical technician who works with patients' blood.

Synonym of anti-ship missile(ASM), particularly an incoming hostile one.

To drain of energy or resources.

A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition was once prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730. The vampire was often said to have the ability to transform itself into the form of a bat, as presented in the novel depicting the legend of Dracula published by Bram Stoker in 1897, which has inspired several movies.

Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.

Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla; also called vampire bat. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a cæcal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored.

Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially Vampyrus spectrum. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire.

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