VLAD
Proper noun
Meaning
A male given name.
VLAD
(Australia, Queensland, law) Acronym of Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment, a series of anti-bikie laws.
An abbreviation of Vladimir (in English, not in Russian; see usage notes).
(rare) An abbreviation of Vladislav.
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Examples
Brust has written 14 published novels in the series, which is proposed to run to nineteen novels – one named for each of the Great Houses, one named for Vlad himself ( Taltos ), and a final novel which Brust has said will be titled The Final Contract.
People of Wallachia only knew voievod (king) Vlad III as Vlad Țepeș (the Impaler).
In retaliation, the Saxons distributed grotesque poems of cruelty and other propaganda, demonizing Vlad III Dracula as a drinker of blood.
During his main reign (1456–1462), "Vlad the Impaler" is said to have killed from 40,000 to 100,000 European civilians (political rivals, criminals, and anyone that he considered "useless to humanity"), mainly by impaling.
Following on Bremmer, Aligica and Tarko Aligica, Paul and Vlad Tarko (2012).
The books are presented as historical novels written by Paarfi of Roundwood, a Dragaeran roughly contemporary with Vlad.