undead

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• /ʌnˈdɛd/
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From Middle English undede, equivalent to un- + dead. The first attestation is from around 1400. The term was revived, popularized, and imbued with supernatural connotations by its usage in Bram Stoker's novel Dracula (1897).

36 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Czech: nemrtvý — being animate, though non-living
• Dutch: ondode — being animate, though non-living
• Esperanto: malmorta — being animate, though non-living
• French: mort-vivant — being animate, though non-living
• Georgian: ცოცხალი მკვდარი (cocxali mḳvdari) — being animate, though non-living
• German: untot — being animate, though non-living
• Hungarian: élőhalott — being animate, though non-living
• Italian: non morto — being animate, though non-living
• Norwegian: vandød — being animate, though non-living
• Polish: nieumarły — being animate, though non-living
• Portuguese: morto-vivo — being animate, though non-living
• Spanish: no muerto — being animate, though non-living
• Spanish: zombi — being animate, though non-living
• Spanish: muerto viviente — being animate, though non-living
• Swedish: vandöd — being animate, though non-living
• Swedish: odöd — being animate, though non-living
• Swedish: levande död — being animate, though non-living
• Swedish: gengångare — being animate, though non-living
• Czech: nemrtvý — those creatures which are dead but still animate
• Esperanto: malmortulo — those creatures which are dead but still animate
• Esperanto: vivkadavro — those creatures which are dead but still animate
• Finnish: epäkuollut — those creatures which are dead but still animate
• Finnish: elävä kuollut — those creatures which are dead but still animate
• French: mort-vivant — those creatures which are dead but still animate
• German: Untoter — those creatures which are dead but still animate
• German: Untote — those creatures which are dead but still animate
• Italian: non morto — those creatures which are dead but still animate
• Italian: morto vivente — those creatures which are dead but still animate
• Japanese: アンデッド (andeddo) — those creatures which are dead but still animate
• Korean: 언데드 (eondedeu) — those creatures which are dead but still animate
• Norwegian: vandøde — those creatures which are dead but still animate
• Polish: nieumarli — those creatures which are dead but still animate
• Portuguese: morto-vivo — those creatures which are dead but still animate
• Russian: не́жить (néžitʹ) — those creatures which are dead but still animate
• Spanish: no muerto — those creatures which are dead but still animate
• Spanish: muerto viviente — those creatures which are dead but still animate