VILLAIN
\vˈɪlən], \vˈɪlən], \v_ˈɪ_l_ə_n]\
Definitions of VILLAIN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A baseborn or clownish person; a boor.
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A vile, wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and capable or guilty of great crimes; a deliberate scoundrel; a knave; a rascal; a scamp.
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To debase; to degrade.
By Oddity Software
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A baseborn or clownish person; a boor.
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A vile, wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and capable or guilty of great crimes; a deliberate scoundrel; a knave; a rascal; a scamp.
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To debase; to degrade.
By Noah Webster.
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One capable of great wickedness; a cirminal; a rascal; under the feudal system, a serf: usually spelled villein; in drama, the evilly disposed person who makes trouble for the hero.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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A vile, wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and capable or guilty of great crimes; one who holds lands by a base or servile tenure.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
