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noun
- 1. (in a film, novel, or play) a character whose evil actions or motives are important to the plot: "a pantomime villain"
- 2. variant spelling of villein archaic
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VILLAIN definition: 1. a bad person who harms other people or breaks the law: 2. a criminal: 3. a character in a…. Learn more.
The meaning of VILLAIN is a character in a story or play who opposes the hero. How to use villain in a sentence.
noun. a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel. Synonyms: scamp, rogue, rapscallion, rascal, knave. a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot.
A villain is someone who deliberately harms other people or breaks the law in order to get what he or she wants.
A villain is a bad person — real or made up. In books, movies, current events, or history, the villain is the character who does mean, evil things on purpose. Today a villain is a wicked person, whether in fact or fiction. In the 1300s, villain described a low-born rustic.
n. 1. a wicked or malevolent person. 2. (in a novel, play, film, etc) the main evil character and antagonist to the hero. 3. often jocular a mischievous person; rogue. 4. police slang Brit a criminal. 5. (Historical Terms) history a variant spelling of villein. 6. obsolete an uncouth person; boor.
Definition of villain noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
villain noun. Meaning & use. 1. Originally, a low-born base-minded rustic; a man of ignoble ideas or instincts; in later use, an unprincipled or depraved scoundrel; a man naturally disposed to base or criminal actions, or deeply involved in the commission of disgraceful crimes: 1.a. 1303–. Used as a term of opprobrious address. 1303.
vĭlən. A wicked or evil person; a scoundrel. A dramatic or fictional character who is typically at odds with the hero. A wicked or unprincipled character in a novel, play, etc., specif. the chief such character opposed to the protagonist.
VILLAIN meaning: 1 : a character in a story, movie, etc., who does bad things; 2 : a person who does bad things.